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Exploding AI workloads are placing U.S. data center power demand on a trajectory to strain the grid significantly by 2030, necessitating a mapping of regional constraints and identification of alternative power corridors to sustain anticipated growth.
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Read at Data Center Frontier  →
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BlackRock's 2026 Investment Outlook identifies that the ambitious artificial intelligence objectives planned for the US and Europe are critically threatened by fundamental limitations in available land and necessary energy capacity.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Data center operators must develop plans for on-site energy generation to ensure operational viability and competitive pricing, as reliance solely on the public grid will become unsustainable given energy availability constraints.
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Read at The Register→
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Is self-generation of power now the only viable long-term strategy for data center survival?
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According to the campaign group Foxglove, proposed data center projects in Scotland collectively require an estimated 3 GW of power, which equates to approximately 75 percent of the country's current peak electricity demand.
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Read at The Register→
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As surging artificial intelligence demand strains grid capacity, leading investors are finding strategic ways to arbitrage renewable energy disparities to manage both cost inflation and potential capacity limitations.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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hpe morpheus stack
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HPE is promoting its Morpheus stack enhancements within GreenLake to position it as a comprehensive alternative to VMware, unifying Aruba and Juniper networking for AIOps and high-speed AI connectivity.
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Read at The Register→
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Executives at IBM and major credit rating agencies have issued warnings regarding the escalating capital expenditures associated with artificial intelligence driven data center buildouts.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Should rating agencies immediately downgrade the debt stability of firms rapidly over-leveraged in AI buildouts?
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The article examines whether the recent high growth trajectory for data center development in Phoenix, Arizona, is potentially coming to an end.
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Read at Bisnow→
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The strategy of 'icebanking' is being explored as a method to mitigate increasing energy expenses within digital infrastructure operations.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Coolant Health Monitoring
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Effective monitoring of coolant quality is essential for optimizing performance in modern direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems used in data centers.
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Read at Bisnow→
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flex data center platform
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Executives from Flex detailed their new integrated, factory-built platform—incorporating liquid cooling, higher-voltage DC power, and global manufacturing—designed to significantly reduce deployment timelines for AI-scale infrastructure.
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Read at Data Center Frontier →
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anthropic multi-cloud ai
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Anthropic is solidifying a multi-cloud strategy by securing major long-term capacity commitments for both Google TPUs and AWS Trainium chips, signaling Google's effort to commercialize its TPUs for external AI workloads.
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Read at Data Center Frontier →
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“Our country is down”
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An IT professional recounts the existential dread of discovering that an entire country's top-level domain has vanished due to apparent registrar mismanagement, finding dark humor in the bureaucratic incompetence of customer support when trying to resolve a national infrastructure failure.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“How green am I?”
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A self-taught IT generalist at a small hardware startup details an impressive, rapid-fire acquisition of diverse skills—from M365 administration and Proxmox virtualization to network segmentation and security tooling—while questioning where this experience places them professionally.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Anyone else feel like M365 identity is a scavenger hunt that never ends?”
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The struggle is real as one attempts to map administrative authority across disparate Microsoft portals, finding conflicting narratives regarding user access controls.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Should Microsoft provide a single, unified administrative portal for all M365 identity controls?
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AI Infrastructure Redefinition
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The profound influence of artificial intelligence is actively redefining the operational and structural future of global infrastructure.
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Read at Data Center POST→
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data center interconnect growth
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Data center interconnect represents the most rapidly expanding segment of network infrastructure, showing no signs of decelerating growth due to the ongoing expansion of the digital data center ecosystem.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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micron ai pivot
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Driven by the high demand associated with artificial intelligence systems, Micron is discontinuing its consumer memory and storage brand, Crucial, to prioritize the production of enterprise-grade chips.
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Read at The Register→
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Is ditching the Crucial brand a smart, aggressive pivot for Micron's long-term profitability?
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sc25 hyperscale ai
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The SC25 conference highlighted a new phase in hyperscale AI development characterized by the convergence of coherent Arm-NVIDIA fabrics, standardization around liquid cooling, and unified power and compute designs for AI factories.
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Read at Data Center Frontier →
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Colo Pricing Models
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Determining the optimal colocation pricing structure requires a careful evaluation of the differences between retail and wholesale service models based on specific operational needs.
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Read at Uptime Institute Blog→
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