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Aug 28, 2026

 
Regional development and zoning

Fort Worth has approved a revised site plan for a ten billion dollar data center campus, advancing a major development in the region.

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Should Fort Worth proceed with the $10B data center campus despite potential infrastructure strain?

Gateway Capital has filed plans to construct an 81-megawatt data center on a former industrial site in Sydney, Australia, proposing a five-story facility.

Read at Data Center Dynamics→

An application has been submitted for a new 200-megawatt data center in Melbourne, Australia, with DoverDC targeting a site near the South Morang Terminal Station.

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Pinal County has denied a rezoning request for the proposed La Osa data center project due to significant local opposition.

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Was Pinal County right to reject the controversial La Osa data center project?

 
Renewable energy and grid constraints

Data center grid connection requests in Italy have surged, exceeding 95GW, a significant increase from the 1GW received in 2021, highlighting a sharp rise in demand.

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OpenAI has secured approval for a 3.2-gigawatt power deal with Georgia Power to supply its planned data center in Effingham County, Georgia, with the AI company covering the costs.

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The AI buildout's pace is dictated by a two-year ordering window for transformers, a critical component that requires over two years to procure.

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Nvidia-driven hardware ecosystem expansion

Nvidia's significant quarterly revenue and AWS's demand for millions more GPUs underscore the expanding infrastructure strain beyond hyperscalers due to AI.

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High-density liquid cooling challenges

Electrical engineering and resilience planning, not chip counts, dictate the limits for AI racks exceeding 100 kW, addressing power, cooling, and failure risks.

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The concept of space-based orbital data centers is being explored, representing a frontier where computing power could eventually operate beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Read at Data Center POST→

 
Chatter
The view from Reddit
“I finally have a major story to tell”

During a change freeze, a sysadmin experienced a catastrophic event where user accounts, including admin accounts, were deleted due to an incorrect Entra Sync policy update, necessitating a full restore from a break-glass account.

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“Anyone Else Having Trouble Keeping Up?”

An IT Director at a school, feeling overwhelmed by the constant influx of complex and poorly supported technology issues, questions whether the problem lies with their own competence or the increasing instability of modern tech.

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“Leaving a solo Dev/IT role for AWS Network Deployment Technician—sanity check from people who’ve made a similar move”

An early-career IT generalist seeks advice on transitioning from a solo developer role to an AWS Network Deployment Technician position, questioning its impact on future career paths in network automation and infrastructure engineering.

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A UK think tank warns that the concentration of market power within Big Tech companies could hinder the nation's ability to compete effectively in the artificial intelligence race.

Read at The Register→

 

Will Big Tech market power prevent the UK from winning the AI race?

 

Nvidia and Cerebras are selling high-performance computing solutions that customers may not fully utilize, raising questions about delivered value versus potential.

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Perplexity is entering the competitive local artificial intelligence market with its new offerings.

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Anthropic is proposing a new specification for interconnecting AI agents with laboratory equipment and robotic systems, aiming to enhance operational capabilities.

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