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OpenAI plans to develop a significant 3.2-gigawatt data center campus in Georgia, contracting energy from Georgia Power Company for the project.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Should Georgia expand its power grid capacity to meet OpenAI's 3.2GW data center needs?
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OpenAI plans to construct a massive $20 billion data center in Savannah, signaling significant investment in digital infrastructure and AI capabilities.
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Read at Bisnow→
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SpaceXAI is reportedly considering developing a large-scale data center campus in Texas, indicating a new direction beyond its primary orbital ambitions.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Data center sustainability and power
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Britain's 'AI superpower' ambitions are proceeding without adequately considering the significant water demands of data centers, raising concerns about sustainable digital infrastructure development.
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Read at The Register→
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A report projects that US data centers could consume up to 194 gigawatts of power by 2035, potentially accounting for 20 percent of total US electricity consumption.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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AI growth overshadowed data center sustainability. Public and economic pressures now mandate a return to environmental responsibility in the industry.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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New York's Executive Order 62 freezes large data center loads and transfers grid upgrade costs to developers, establishing a precedent for other states adopting a beneficiary-pays model.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Should states adopt New York's 'beneficiary-pays' model for data center infrastructure costs?
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Australian gas firm Beetaloo Energy is planning a gigawatt-scale, gas-powered data center campus outside Darwin, signaling a new energy approach for these facilities.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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OpenAI is launching a new consulting service, 'Presence,' which offers enterprise-level deployment of AI agents at significant costs.
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Read at The Register→
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TeraWulf's 20-year, $19B Anthropic lease for 401 MW of AI capacity tests its strategy, while Divesting a Texas JV prepares for direct infrastructure ownership.
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Read at Data Center Frontier  →
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The surge in artificial intelligence power consumption has fueled a significant increase in climate tech venture funding, marking the best half-year performance since 2022.
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Read at The Register→
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IREN's new financing model is gaining traction across AI infrastructure, evidenced by $2.8 billion in new contracts and an increased AI cloud ARR target over $4 billion.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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“Vmware vs openshift vs nutanix”
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A sysadmin is evaluating virtualization platforms, considering Nutanix's HCI (though not compatible with their servers) and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as alternatives to VMware, which they find unreliable due to recent changes and slow relicensing responses, noting OpenShift's potential cost savings and suitability for their on-premise needs despite the complexity of air-gapped environments.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“VMware "win-back initiative" is an insult to our intelligence”
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A former VMware customer expresses disbelief and offense at Broadcom's 'win-back initiative' offering aggressive pricing, viewing it as an insult to their intelligence after experiencing significant price hikes and negative changes since the acquisition.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Is Broadcom's VMware 'win-back initiative' a genuine offer or a market manipulation tactic?
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“What’s disappeared from your sysadmin workflow over the years?”
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A representative from a rack cabinet manufacturer reflects on the quiet disappearance of numerous physical IT tasks over fifteen years, such as burning driver CDs, physically visiting servers, terminating cables, and keeping blank media, and asks others what tasks have vanished from their workflows and if they miss any.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Amazon is financing significant buildouts, with its fastest AWS growth in fifteen quarters highlighting capital structure, not capex scale, as its key variable.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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