The Data Center Rundown
   people here now
Today's top stories in Data Center

The Data Center Rundown

Apr 15, 2026

 
Innovations in data center design

Precision liquid cooling and industrial resiliency are crucial for scaling artificial intelligence infrastructure, driving data center performance through enhanced resilience and speed.

Read at Data Center Dynamics→

AMD suggests that memory, rather than compute, will be the next major bottleneck in artificial intelligence data centers, recommending workload-specific memory architectures like LPDDR5X for improved energy efficiency and performance over traditional server memory designs.

Read at Data Center Knowledge→

Amazon Web Services is reportedly launching "Project Houdini" to accelerate data center construction through the use of prefabricated facilities.

Read at Data Center Dynamics→

 

Will AWS's 'Project Houdini' accelerate data center construction with prefabricated facilities?

 
Strategic partnerships with GPU providers

Meta's substantial investment in CoreWeave, totaling $21 billion, suggests a strategic shift away from building its own US data centers, likely driven by NVIDIA GPU priority access, grid constraints, and the economics of inference workloads.

Read at Global Data Center Hub→

CoreWeave and Anthropic have entered into a multi-year agreement for compute services, with the financial terms of the deal not publicly disclosed.

Read at Data Center Dynamics→

 
Nuclear energy for data centers

New Jersey has lifted its ban on nuclear power, a move that could significantly impact the energy landscape for data centers actively seeking power sources.

Read at Bisnow→

 

Will New Jersey's nuclear power ban lift help data centers secure necessary energy?

The British government has contracted Rolls-Royce to begin the design phase for small modular reactors, though widespread power generation from these reactors is not expected before the mid-2030s.

Read at The Register→

 

Japan aims to regain its former dominance in the semiconductor industry, with local company Rapidus on track to produce 2nm semiconductors next year and TSMC expanding its presence in the country.

Read at The Register→

 

Nvidia has released open-source Ising artificial intelligence models designed to aid in quantum chip development by providing tools for calibration and decoding to address quantum error correction.

Read at Data Center Dynamics→

 

Blackstone is preparing to launch its first data center real estate investment trust.

Read at Bisnow→

 
Chatter
The view from Reddit
“My full Google Data Center Technician interview timeline”

A detailed account outlines a successful Google Data Center Technician hiring process, from initial recruiter contact to a verbal and written offer, including a relocation to Dallas, Texas.

Read at r/datacenter→

“Weird situation”

A 19-year-old with a Security+ certification and varied data center experience, from server repair to a Level 3 technician contract, is seeking advice on the next career step, questioning whether to pursue Level 2, Level 3, or other roles given their rapid progression.

Read at r/datacenter→

“How do you answer questions for which an answer doesn't technically exist”

A sysadmin grapples with how to respond to users and management when faced with technical issues that lack clear explanations, struggling with the feeling of inadequacy when unable to pinpoint the cause of glitches in systems like Teams, Jira, or Okta.

Read at r/sysadmin→

 

Amazon Web Services' EC2 service has fundamentally altered the economics of compute ownership by introducing a metered utility model that bypasses traditional enterprise server farms.

Read at Global Data Center Hub→

 

Gartner analysts predict that a significant majority of AI-powered mainframe migration projects will fail, with a substantial percentage of vendors in this sector expected to cease operations.

Read at The Register→

 

Are AI-powered mainframe exits a bubble poised to burst, as Gartner predicts?

 

Subscribe

Get The Data Center Rundown delivered to your inbox.

Free. Unsubscribe anytime.

The Data Center Rundown Week in review Trending topics Issue archive Companies & orgs About Privacy Terms
© 2026 Rundown Club
For Executives & Investors For IT & Cloud Architects For Infrastructure Engineers For Operators & Facility Managers For Sustainability & Compliance For Vendors & Service Providers