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December 8, 2025

 
Data center power speculation

According to a Uptime Institute report, datacenters are reserving significantly more electrical grid capacity than they require, thereby impeding connection availability for other energy consumers.

Read at The Register→

 

Should grid operators have the authority to limit power reservations by data centers for speculative growth?

Lancium is securing additional funding for its massive Stargate project, which aims to construct AI megacenters across Texas as part of the broader race to meet the computational requirements of advanced Artificial Intelligence models.

Read at TechRepublic→

 

kkr invests compass

Reports indicate that Compass Datacenters has reached an agreement allowing KKR to invest capital into a portion of its existing operational data centers as well as its pipeline of future assets.

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Government Cloud Deals

Following a significant 9 billion agreement with Microsoft, the UK tech minister signaled plans for further consolidated, whole-government procurement strategies targeting major cloud service providers.

Read at The Register→

 

UK Undersea Cable Defense

The UK government announced plans to bolster protection for its undersea data cables by deploying autonomous vessels alongside crewed naval assets to counter escalating surveillance activities attributed to Russia.

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server lifespan extension

Data center operators can realize significant reductions in operating expenses while simultaneously improving environmental sustainability and overall efficiency through the implementation of specific, actionable strategies aimed at extending server hardware lifespan.

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data center safety gap

As data centers increasingly function as essential utility infrastructure, persistent and unaddressed gaps in current safety protocols and physical design standards must be corrected to ensure continuous operational uptime and reliability.

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Chatter
The view from Reddit
“Thermal tech is becoming mission critical. Are we underestimating how fast AI workloads are stressing cooling envelopes?”

Following a major trading outage attributed to cooling issues, the author posits that the transient, high-density heat generated by AI compute is fundamentally shifting thermal engineering from a secondary concern to a mission-critical discipline requiring energy storage solutions.

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Should energy storage solutions be mandated for data centers hosting leading AI workloads?

“Users receiving Microsoft MFA SMS code when they did not initiate a login”

After password resets and session sign-outs failed to stop unsolicited Microsoft MFA SMS codes, the user discovered that enabling SMS sign-in via phone number in Entra was likely exposing accounts to a brute-force attack.

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“What happened to the IT profession?”

A seasoned technician laments the erosion of hands-on expertise and mentorship in favor of instant, AI-generated answers and demanding end-users.

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cloudflare outage

Cloudflare experienced a second service disruption within two months when standard maintenance procedures inadvertently caused the company's primary dashboard and API to fail, leading to widespread errors for customer sites globally.

Read at The Register→

 

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