| |
|
|
|
The substantial investment frenzy surrounding AI-driven datacenter construction continues unabated, yet concerns persist regarding whether this massive capital expenditure can yield clear profits before potentially becoming unsustainable.
|
|
Read at The Register→
|
|
|
|
|
Microsoft has pledged to absorb the financial burden associated with its data center electricity consumption, aiming to shield customers from potential cost escalations.
|
|
Read at Bisnow→
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Is Microsoft's pledge to cover all data center electricity costs a sustainable model for cloud providers?
|
|
|
DataBank is raising $665 million through the securitization of 36 of its data center facilities.
|
|
Read at Bisnow→
|
|
|
|
| |
Data center infrastructure resource challenges
|
|
Forecasters suggest that insufficient growth in grid and generation capacity will severely constrain expected future datacenter expansion, causing many industry growth projections to be overly optimistic.
|
|
Read at The Register→
|
|
|
|
|
Scarcity of fiber routes is becoming the primary limiting factor in the expansion of data centers into secondary U.S. markets, directly influencing investment returns and feasibility of scaling operations.
|
|
Read at Global Data Center Hub→
|
|
|
|
|
The escalating electricity demands driven by the AI boom necessitate innovative redesigns of electrical power systems within data centers to support future capacity requirements.
|
|
Read at Data Center Knowledge→
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Texas's SB6 legislation reassigns grid cost and reliability responsibilities to high-load users, establishing a regulatory precedent that may be adopted across other jurisdictions.
|
|
Read at Data Center Knowledge→
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Should other states adopt Texas's aggressive approach to shifting grid accountability to data centers?
|
|
|
The Governor of Arizona is proposing the elimination of existing tax incentives specifically offered to data center developments within the state.
|
|
Read at Bisnow→
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
SK Hynix announced a $13 billion investment in a new advanced packaging and testing facility in South Korea designed to alleviate the High Bandwidth Memory shortage fueling the current AI infrastructure expansion.
|
|
Read at The Register→
|
|
|
|
|
A manufacturer specializing in data center cooling equipment is exploring the establishment of a new factory location in Fort Worth.
|
|
Read at Bisnow→
|
|
|
|
|
IT infrastructure buyers must prepare for significant price increases across servers, storage, and networking equipment due to a sharp, 63% surge in memory component costs since September, which analysts expect to propagate through the supply chain.
|
|
Read at The Register→
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Will imminent DRAM price spikes force IT budgets to delay critical server purchases?
|
|
| |
|
|
|
The national data center landscape is diversifying as various levels of government implement distinct strategies to manage the ongoing expansion and growth across emerging US markets.
|
|
Read at Data Center Knowledge→
|
|
|
|
|
Duos Edge AI is deploying an edge data center in rural Texas, expanding its edge computing footprint.
|
|
Read at Data Center POST→
|
|
|
|
|
Driven by artificial intelligence demand and new regulatory considerations, the European data center market configuration is evolving away from the centralized FLAP-D structure toward a more dispersed operational footprint.
|
|
Read at Data Center Knowledge→
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
“Data centers need clean backup power, are hydrogen fuel cell generators actually viable, or still mostly PR?”
|
|
An industry participant probes the operational reality of small-scale hydrogen fuel cells for backup power, asking seasoned buyers about CapEx barriers, logistical nightmares, and the utility of remote monitoring features.
|
|
Read at r/datacenter→
|
|
|
|
|
“The AppStack Was Pirated.”
|
|
A former VDI engineer recounts the chaotic discovery that a perpetually licensed Adobe Pro application stack, distributed across dozens of healthcare users, was operating without valid licenses due to a packaging engineer's circumvention of DRM.
|
|
Read at r/sysadmin→
|
|
|
|
|
“Our country is down”
|
|
An IT professional recounts the existential dread of discovering that an entire country's top-level domain has vanished due to apparent registrar mismanagement, finding dark humor in the bureaucratic incompetence of customer support when trying to resolve a national infrastructure failure.
|
|
Read at r/sysadmin→
|
|
|
|
| |