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CoreWeave anticipates doubling its capital expenditure in 2026 while setting a goal to increase its data center capacity by an additional five gigawatts by the year 2030, based on strong financial results.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The justification for $121 billion in U.S. data center lending hinges on sustained AI demand, power certainty, disciplined capital structures, and sponsor scale, which will ultimately determine the viability of the AI infrastructure cycle.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Following growth observed at QTS Data Centers, Blackstone is reportedly preparing to launch a publicly traded company specifically focused on acquiring artificial intelligence data centers.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Will a publicly traded Blackstone entity dedicated to AI data centers outperform current REIT structures?
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Harrison Street has reportedly sold two powered shell data center sites located in Maryland, which were leased to hyperscalers, to GI Partners.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Microsoft's $50 billion strategic investment focused on India signals a significant realignment in global capital allocation for artificial intelligence infrastructure, marking a major shift in how investment is sequenced across emerging markets.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Red Hat and Telenor announced a partnership at MWC 2026 to establish a sovereign artificial intelligence Factory in Norway, offering a governance-focused option distinct from hyperscaler regional deployments.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Does a sovereign AI factory approach provide a more secure long-term solution than relying on global hyperscalers?
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Amazon has committed to an investment of 33.7 billion euros toward data center infrastructure in Aragon, Spain, which will encompass facilities for server manufacturing, assembly, storage, and recycling.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Kip Meeks resigned as chair of the Competition and Markets Authority's cloud inquiry, citing the slow implementation of recommendations made in the 2025 report intended to promote market dynamics among major providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.
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Read at The Register→
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Nvidia's silicon photonics investment strategy
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Nvidia invested $2 billion each in Coherent and Lumentum, committing significant capital to secure the supply chain for their respective silicon photonics technologies necessary for manufacturing.
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Read at The Register→
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Ayar Labs, a silicon photonics startup supported by Nvidia, has successfully secured significant funding to scale up mass production of its chiplets intended to create more efficient connections between tens of thousands of graphics processing units for artificial intelligence training and inference.
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Read at The Register→
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Data center facilities operated by Amazon sustained damage as a result of drone strikes launched from Iran.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Information technology leaders establishing an edge strategy aligned with enterprise objectives must prioritize a clear vision, define specific use cases, integrate robust risk controls, and rely on cross-functional teams for successful large-scale execution.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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AMD is refreshing its edge-focused Epyc processors, codenamed Sorano and likely representing the final iteration of the Zen 5 architecture, by introducing an 8005-series chip featuring 84 cores aimed at telecommunications and edge computing deployments.
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“Windows sucks at Automatic Time Zones.”
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A detailed technical investigation reveals that erratic time zone switching on Windows laptops is caused by Microsoft's reliance on undocumented Wi-Fi geolocation databases, leading the author to develop a custom monitoring script while awaiting vendor resolution.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Post-mortem sanity check: how do you handle “un-scannable” expiries (API keys, internal certs) without spreadsheets?”
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Following an outage caused by an expired third-party API key that was poorly tracked in a forgotten spreadsheet, the author seeks proven, automated methods for managing the lifecycle of non-public digital secrets like signing keys and internal certificates.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Can effective, non-spreadsheet automation replace manual tracking for managing internal digital certificate lifecycles?
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“follow up re: Microsoft has gotten too big to fail”
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Following up on a previous support ordeal, the user recounts how Microsoft escalation engineers, after weeks of silence, demanded a phone call only to inform them that the existing ticket was out of scope and required opening an entirely new incident.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Does Microsoft's support escalation process confirm that the company is genuinely too large to serve small enterprise needs efficiently?
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Equinix and CPP Investments have confirmed their joint $4 billion acquisition of atNorth, a deal intended to accelerate the provider's expansion to meet the escalating requirements for artificial intelligence and data center capacity across the Nordic region.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
More coverage at Data Center Dynamics →
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A consortium of potential buyers is reportedly finalizing terms for the purchase of data center firm atNorth, a transaction that Bloomberg suggests could assign the company an approximate valuation of $4 billion.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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