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Emerging topics we picked up on in the 79 Data Center articles we scanned this week: - Hyperscalers and regulators pivot to 'pay-your-way' model for grid upgrades
- Data center demand forces manufacturers to deprioritize consumer and automotive silicon
- Thermal limits emerge as primary constraint over power capacity for AI assets
Read the full Week in Review →
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The massive, continuous power requirements of hyperscale artificial intelligence campuses are forcing rapid evolution within the electrical grid, characterized by compressed development timelines, diversified generation sources, and unprecedented levels of investment in power delivery infrastructure.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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The PowerGen conference was notably dominated by discussions of artificial intelligence data centers, highlighting how inference-driven demand, limitations on the power grid, and the trend toward self-built power infrastructure are fundamentally altering the energy sector.
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Read at TechRepublic→
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The artificial intelligence company claims that its Stargate data centers will assume responsibility for their own energy consumption, thereby scaling necessary United States infrastructure without imposing increases on local electricity tariffs.
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Read at TechRepublic→
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Do you believe OpenAI's Stargate centers will truly avoid raising local electricity rates for residents?
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Monterey Park, California, has implemented a 45-day moratorium halting all data center construction projects, including those already underway, pending the establishment of more permanent regulatory frameworks.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The Naperville City Council has formally blocked a proposed plan for the development of a new data center within the municipality.
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Read at Bisnow→
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A plan to build a large, 180-acre data center in Lyon Township, Michigan, is facing significant local opposition from area residents.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Should large-scale data centers be built in densely populated or actively opposing suburban areas?
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A public meeting regarding Cloud Centers' proposal to redevelop a former superfund site into a data center in Lisle, Illinois, was postponed due to the unexpectedly large attendance.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The British Royal Navy is deploying Oracle Cloud's edge infrastructure on the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier to support artificial intelligence-driven decision-making and operational learning capabilities at sea.
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Read at The Register→
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The US Army Engineer Research and Development Center has deployed a new supercomputer at its Mississippi laboratory, naming the system after a World War II Medal of Honor recipient.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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California Data Center Future • California
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Despite the ongoing boom in artificial intelligence, the future outlook for the data center market within California remains an unresolved question.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Is achieving complete energy independence through onsite power the definitive future model for data centers?
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data center evolution history
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This historical overview traces the evolution of data centers over eight decades, beginning with early room-sized machines and progressing to today's globally distributed, hyperscale infrastructure, noting that artificial intelligence is currently driving further transformation in power density and cooling.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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“Data leakage is happening on every device, managed or unmanaged. What does mobile compliance even mean anymore? Be real, all our sensitive company data and personal info we shouldn’t type into AI tools is already there...”
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Despite rigorous mobile device management and warnings, employees are indiscriminately feeding sensitive corporate data into various AI tools, creating an unmonitored, uncontrollable leakage vector.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Should companies stop relying on employee warnings and instead mandate strict egress filtering for corporate data?
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“Yesterday’s Cloudflare outage exposed a huge blind spot in our monitoring stack”
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The recent edge service failure triggered numerous false alarms across the monitoring stack, revealing a critical inability of current tools to differentiate between origin infrastructure failure and external CDN/edge service degradation.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Spent 5 hours debugging AWS Elastic Beanstalk… turns out my client just hadn’t paid the bills.”
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After spending half a day troubleshooting cryptic errors across Elastic Beanstalk, scaling limits, and logs, the engineer discovered the entire infrastructure was silently suspended due to the client's overdue cloud service invoices.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Following a legal challenge initiated by the campaign group Foxglove, the British government acknowledged procedural errors and agreed to retract approval for a major data center campus near the M25 motorway due to inadequate environmental assessments.
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Read at The Register→
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The United Kingdom's Labour government has acknowledged an error and accepted that planning permission for the 90 megawatt Woodlands Park data center in Buckinghamshire should be revoked, following pressure from a campaign group.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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UK Digital ID
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The United Kingdom government has detailed aspects of its in-house digital identity scheme, promising robust verification and smartphone-free access while notably evading specific questions regarding the overall cost.
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Read at The Register→
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