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Hey all. I built a couple of new ways to follow news of interest on the website that I wanted to mention. First, tracking of emerging topics like the shift toward use of zoning regulation to limit new DC development and pay-your-way power models. See the full topic list here. Second, a new organization directory, where you can track the latest coverage of companies like Nvidia, Prologis, or Meta. Thanks for reading. I'm really encouraged by recent list growth and continuing high open rates. Please keep forwarding the newsletter to your friends in the industry. We need to grow to keep improving. As always, please reply anytime with feedback on topics or companies you feel we're missing. Eliot
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Optimizing performance, minimizing waste, and boosting efficiency are key approaches for transforming infrastructure into a sustainable asset that aligns with organizational objectives in the era of artificial intelligence.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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During a DCD studio discussion, Miranda Gardiner of the iMasons Climate Accord spoke with Kat Sullivan about accelerating sustainability through cross-industry collaboration, shared standards, carbon disclosure, and emissions reduction efforts.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The artificial intelligence model developer Anthropic has pledged to absorb any increases in consumer energy prices that are directly attributed to the high power demands of its leased datacenters from providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
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Read at The Register→
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Should AI developers be legally responsible for all consumer utility price increases caused by datacenter power draw?
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Google entered into a fifteen-year power purchase agreement with EnBW to secure electricity generated from Germany's largest offshore wind farm project.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Regional data center market constraints
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The availability of clean power, once anticipated as a regional advantage, is now proving to be a constraint on hyperscale data center expansion in Latin America, significantly influencing environmental, social, and governance factors, financing structures, and facility siting decisions.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Is clean power availability now a greater constraint on LATAM data center growth than financing capital?
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A recent report indicates that only twenty percent of data centers across Europe and the Middle East are currently equipped for artificial intelligence workloads, signaling potential bottlenecks due to land constraints and skill shortages.
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Read at The Register→
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Oracle's cloud launch in Africa may recalibrate the valuation of African data centers, reflecting a structural shift in hyperscaler anchoring across the continent.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Deutsche Telekom is launching an Nvidia-powered artificial intelligence factory data center in Munich's Tucherpark to establish the foundation for Germany's sovereign artificial intelligence capabilities.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Gartner projects that spending across Europe on sovereign cloud infrastructure services will more than triple between 2025 and 2027, driven by geopolitical tensions increasing concern over reliance on non-domestic providers.
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Read at The Register→
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The European Data Centre Association forecasts that Frankfurt will overtake London as the leading European colocation market by 2031, driven by increasing demand related to artificial intelligence workloads and data sovereignty requirements.
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Read at The Register→
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French artificial intelligence company Mistral signed a $1.2 billion agreement to construct its first data center outside of France, in Borlänge, Sweden, where it will deploy Vera Rubin graphics processing units.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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“I got tired of laggy BIOS video, so I built a KVM that pipes pre-OS output directly into an SSH terminal”
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Frustrated with poor remote management video quality, a builder created a custom hardware KVM using a Radxa Zero 3W to capture and stream pre-OS BIOS/UEFI output as a text-based SSH terminal, incorporating read-only Btrfs snapshots for offline data protection.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Our dev team is the weak point in our cyber security and they don't want to change”
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A self-appointed IT administrator struggles to enforce necessary security hardening, such as standardizing endpoints away from unmanaged Linux systems, against a rapidly grown development team accustomed to excessive privileges.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Is mandatory standardization of endpoints the most effective way to mitigate risks from privileged developer teams?
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“HP Laptop had no thermal paste from the factory”
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An IT support professional recounts discovering that a brand-new, high-spec HP laptop was severely underperforming due to a complete absence of thermal paste on the CPU, a manufacturing oversight they suspect might affect other deployed units.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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