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Mar 25, 2026

 
Canadian AI data center expansion

Bell's proposed 300MW AI campus in Canada could redefine the market through a convergence of pre-leased demand, sovereign alignment, and crucial power access, influencing future underwriting and financing strategies.

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Cerebras is planning a new data center development in Manitoba, Canada, subsequent to its previously announced collaboration with Bell in Saskatchewan.

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Advanced cooling for AI infrastructure

Vertiv is enhancing its thermal management offerings for AI infrastructure through the acquisition of ThermoKey, aiming to address critical cooling bottlenecks and strengthen its position in the AI hardware market.

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Should cooling solutions focus more on upstream/near-rack heat rejection rather than traditional external systems?

Akash Systems, in collaboration with AMD and Nvidia, is pioneering diamond-based cooling solutions to address the thermal challenges hindering the scalability of artificial intelligence in data centers.

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Waterless cooling technology is emerging as an essential component for building scalable infrastructure to support artificial intelligence factories.

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Ecolab's proposed $4.75 billion acquisition of CoolIT Systems signals continued merger and acquisition activity in the liquid cooling sector, driven by the demand for higher density solutions.

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The Federal Communications Commission has prohibited the import of foreign-manufactured routers, citing unacceptable national security risks associated with cybersecurity and supply chain vulnerabilities.

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Should US network providers immediately audit and replace all foreign-manufactured routers citing national security risks?

 
Technical bottlenecks in AI infrastructure

The adoption of 800 volt direct current architecture at the rack level is identified as the immediate technical enabler for implementing 800 volt direct current solutions within artificial intelligence data centers.

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Front-end networks are identified as a critical, yet often overlooked, bottleneck impacting the performance of artificial intelligence data centers.

Read at Data Center POST→

 
Development of orbital data centers

Jeff Bezos's company, Blue Origin, is planning a significant project to launch a data center constellation consisting of 51,600 satellites into orbit.

Read at Bisnow→

LightSpeed and Infraeo have partnered to address bottlenecks in artificial intelligence infrastructure by focusing on network point-of-presence optimization and fiber deployment, with initial pilot projects planned for India and the United States.

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RISC-V adoption in AI servers

Multi-line insurance policies can offer data centers improved administrative efficiency and fewer coverage gaps, although they may also impose aggregate limits and limit customization options.

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Alibaba has introduced a new server central processing unit based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, which the company claims has achieved performance records for that architecture, although it appears to lag behind current Western server processors.

Read at The Register→

 
Chatter
The view from Reddit
“The tale of BACKUP01”

A new administrator recounts the nightmarish saga of inheriting a single, ancient server that had been disastrously overloaded with the responsibilities of multiple decommissioned domain controllers and file servers, culminating in a cathartic, violent physical destruction of the machine.

Read at r/sysadmin→

“Volt staffing”

An experienced SysAdmin recounts the absurd hiring process with Volt staffing for an entry-level Apple DC technician role, characterized by contradictory contract lengths, irrelevant questioning about vehicle reliability, and shifting security clearance requirements.

Read at r/datacenter→

“My L3 interview with google”

After an L3 interview experience at Google that unexpectedly focused heavily on Linux scripting and obscure programming concepts rather than hardware troubleshooting, the candidate received external validation suggesting the interview structure itself was flawed.

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The continued delay by the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority in reaching a decision regarding its public cloud services market investigation places an ongoing financial burden on taxpayers while benefiting incumbent providers like Microsoft.

Read at The Register→

 

According to insights shared at RSAC 2026, voice phishing has substantially increased to become the second most prevalent initial access vector in cyberattacks overall, and is notably the leading tactic utilized by threat actors targeting cloud environments.

Read at The Register→

 

Should organizations prioritize blocking voice phishing immediately over other network-based intrusion attempts?

 

A co-founder of Supermicro has been indicted along with two others for allegedly evading United States export controls by illicitly shipping servers equipped with Nvidia graphics processing units, valued at $2.5 billion, to customers in China using fraudulent documentation.

Read at The Register→

More coverage at Data Center Dynamics →

 

Do current export control regulations need immediate tightening to prevent large-scale illicit GPU shipments to sanctioned regions?

 

Backed by Nvidia, the startup Reflection AI is planning a multi-billion dollar data center in South Korea as part of a broader US initiative to promote open artificial intelligence infrastructure to counter rivals in China.

Read at TechRepublic→

 

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