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December 3, 2025

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AI data center deployment challenges

The location for the next wave of gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence capacity buildout will be determined by the availability of power resources and associated grid infrastructure.

Read at Global Data Center Hub→

The intense, unrelenting demand for new data center capacity is compelling development activities into locations characterized by elevated environmental or structural risk factors.

Read at Bisnow→

Data center investors are beginning to adopt a new critical metric for evaluating investments specifically tailored for the artificial intelligence era.

Read at Data Center POST→

 

Are traditional data center ROI metrics now obsolete when evaluating facilities purely for AI workloads?

 

Multi-cloud interconnect

AWS and Google Cloud are launching a joint multi-cloud connectivity service, contradicting their prior assurances to regulators that no technical obstacles prevented cross-cloud operation.

Read at The Register→

 
AI chip competition intensifies

A study from Princeton indicates that installing flexible power generation, such as onsite solar, batteries, or natural gas turbines, allows data centers to connect to the main grid more rapidly and helps alleviate stress on existing power infrastructure.

Read at Data Center Knowledge→

Amazon Web Services introduced its Trainium3 chip, which is positioned to directly challenge Nvidia's market dominance by offering superior energy efficiency, enhanced computational performance, and more favorable pricing for intensive artificial intelligence workloads.

Read at Data Center Knowledge→

 

canada power shift

A significant pivot in Canada's energy policy, facilitated by the actions of the power CEO, is opening new avenues for data center expansion, supporting the deployment of natural gas-fired power plants alongside carbon capture initiatives.

Read at Data Center Knowledge→

 

us funds euv startup

The US Department of Commerce intends to provide up to $150 million in funding to xLight, a startup led by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, to develop extreme ultraviolet lithography technology to compete with ASML.

Read at The Register→

 

Should US taxpayer funds directly subsidize private semiconductor manufacturing startups led by former industry CEOs?

 
Chatter
The view from Reddit
“Windows sucks at Automatic Time Zones.”

A detailed technical investigation reveals that erratic time zone switching on Windows laptops is caused by Microsoft's reliance on undocumented Wi-Fi geolocation databases, leading the author to develop a custom monitoring script while awaiting vendor resolution.

Read at r/sysadmin→

“Are you allowing any AI tools to touch production data at work?”

An engineer observes a disconnect between strict corporate policy banning generative AI tools and the reality of employees secretly using them, prompting a search for established governance models.

Read at r/sysadmin→

“I can't take it anymore guys”

A deeply frustrated system administrator vents about the constant, maddening user experience issues caused by opaque error messages, slow interfaces, forced feature adoption, and unsolicited AI integrations in modern software, particularly from Microsoft.

Read at r/sysadmin→

 

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