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Dec 22, 2025

Emerging topics we picked up on in the 90 Data Center articles we scanned this week: Senator Bernie Sanders Calls for National Freeze on Data Center Construction, Global Server Spending Hits Record $112B in Q3 Driven by Hyperscalers, SpaceX and Blue Origin Initiate Competition for Orbital Data Center Infrastructure. Read the full Week in Review →

 
Data center infrastructure spending strain

The current artificial intelligence boom has led hyperscale data center operators to substantially increase infrastructure spending and operational capacity, a trend showing no immediate signs of abatement.

Read at The Register→

Georgia Power received necessary Public Service Commission approval to proceed with a substantial 10 GW expansion despite facing organized opposition.

Read at Bisnow→

 

DOE Genesis Mission

The US Department of Energy has secured collaboration agreements with leading cloud, chip, and AI companies to advance scientific discovery through the Trump administration's Genesis Mission.

Read at The Register→

 

Should the DOE prioritize AI collaboration with chip giants for the Genesis Mission?

 

Airbus Sovereign Cloud

Airbus is preparing to initiate a tender process for migrating mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud, although executives acknowledge only an 80% probability of finding a suitable vendor.

Read at The Register→

 

High Memory Prices

According to analyst James Sanders, relief from current stratospheric DRAM pricing is not imminent, as memory prices are forecasted by TechInsights not to peak until at least 2026.

Read at The Register→

 
Chatter
The view from Reddit
“Processing long Teams meeting transcripts locally without cloud tools or copy-paste”

The author shares a breakthrough in workflow design, realizing that large text analysis requires breaking down massive transcripts into manageable chunks processed sequentially by small local models, rather than relying on a single, large cloud-based summarization step.

Read at r/sysadmin→

“Edge 143 blocks SSO for domain hosted apps”

The abrupt removal of automatic domain credential pass-through in recent browser versions has forced administrators into a frantic, holiday-timed scramble to manually whitelist thousands of internal applications.

Read at r/sysadmin→

 

Should IT administrators adopt manual whitelisting immediately due to the Edge 143 SSO block?

“How can we better protect ourselves from the recent npm supply chain attacks leaking secrets?”

Following recent compromises involving malicious npm package scripts leaking secrets, the author seeks advanced strategies beyond standard dependency controls for hardening runtime and containerized environments.

Read at r/sysadmin→

 

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