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Alphabet plans to acquire data center partner Intersect for $4.75 billion to gain better direct access to reliable electricity supplies needed for its data centers, amid ongoing struggles within aging US power grids.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Goodman and CPP Investments have formed a $9 billion joint venture aimed at developing four new data center facilities across key European hubs including Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Paris.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Data Center Workforce
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Establishing robust manpower pipelines is crucial for successfully supporting the operational needs of critical data center facilities.
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Read at Data Center POST→
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NVIDIA, collaborating with industrial partners like Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Trane, is standardizing multi-gigawatt AI factory deployments by releasing reference designs that integrate digital twins with optimized power, cooling, and control architectures for faster, more efficient construction.
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Read at Data Center Frontier  →
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A technology overhaul project for the UK's National Savings & Investments (NS&I) has reportedly exceeded HM Treasury spending limits and its contracted timeline, now requiring a revised plan from systems integrator Capgemini.
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Read at The Register→
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“"Just connect the LLM to internal data" - senior leadership said”
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The author recounts how their initial warnings about overly permissive access led to an LLM inadvertently exposing sensitive legal matters to a developer who only asked a general query, sparking widespread internal discussion about the risks of unsecured data integration.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“I feel like I missed out on the Golden Age of IT work”
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A network engineer at a hyperscaler laments the loss of hands-on troubleshooting in the modern era of automated tooling, romanticizing the perceived 'golden age' of manually fixing infrastructure.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Hwops/Dcop's question”
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A contractor performing basic rack bracing at a Google facility feels misled about career progression and is frustrated by a supervisor blocking access to internal training materials needed to transition into the hardware or operations teams.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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