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December 16, 2025

 

gigawatt data centers

Gigawatt-scale data centers are becoming the focal point of global artificial intelligence strategy, driven by massive capital deployment and power availability shaping deployment decisions.

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AI Data Centers 2025

The evolution of artificial intelligence data centers in 2025 fundamentally reshaped the digital infrastructure industry across hardware, software, operations, and critical sustainability considerations.

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AI workload infrastructure spending

Global server market revenue hit a record $112.4 billion in the third quarter, fueled primarily by intense demand for AI infrastructure which drove vendor sales up 61 percent year-over-year, according to IDC figures.

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Is the current 61% year-on-year server spending growth sustainable given future AI investment uncertainty?

Lenovo introduced various new storage products and services designed to assist clients in modernizing their existing IT infrastructure environments to better handle the demands of the escalating AI boom.

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Power Project Cancellations

Almost two thousand planned power projects across the United States were canceled this year, coinciding with increasing energy demands from data centers.

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Should US energy regulators impose moratoriums on new data center builds until grid capacity is secured?

 

14 billion year storage

Sphoenix is advancing its 5D Memory Crystal cold storage technology toward deployment in data centers, creating a storage medium engineered to retain data for an unprecedented 14 billion years.

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hyperscale growth constraints

Hyperscale providers are maintaining growth momentum by strategically relocating buildouts to regions with ample power resources while emphasizing early power purchase agreements and rapid substation delivery to secure necessary capacity.

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Chatter
The view from Reddit
“Project Engineer Looking to Build a Data Center Startup – Looking for Advice & Reality Checks”

A seasoned mechanical engineer with infrastructure project experience seeks candid feedback on pivoting toward a data center product startup focusing on modularity and efficiency amidst AI density demands.

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“Why does every “simple” change request turn into a full-blown fire drill?”

An administrator vents about seemingly trivial requests triggering cascading failures due to undocumented dependencies, legacy configurations, and forgotten scripts in an aging environment.

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“The original "Vibe Coding" wasn't AI. It was VisiCalc (1979)”

A historical parallel is drawn between the initial disruptive adoption of VisiCalc bypassing IT departments and the current rise of AI/low-code tools, suggesting that banning these new technologies is a doomed strategy.

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europe data center map

Anticipated AI demand and evolving regulatory landscapes are causing a fundamental geographical redistribution of Europe's data center capacity, moving away from the traditional FLAP-D hubs toward a more decentralized infrastructure model by 2026.

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Bare Metal for Blockchain

Bare metal infrastructure is being utilized to efficiently power enterprise blockchain validators, addressing specific demands of distributed ledger technology operations.

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google data center uk

Google secured local approval for a significant expansion of its European data center footprint, despite facing some community resistance in the UK.

Read at TechRepublic→

 

Dublin AI Hub

The article explores the potential for Dublin, Ireland, to establish itself as Europe's primary hub for artificial intelligence technology and infrastructure.

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AI chip technology competition

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan stated that silicon photonics will not be significant in the near term for data centers, even as his company holds substantial pre-orders for custom AI accelerator chips.

Read at The Register→

Allegations involving the smuggling of high-performance chips to China, targeting entities like DeepSeek, highlight the difficulties in enforcing physical export controls on critical semiconductor technology.

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Are physical export controls on high-end chips ultimately ineffective against determined state actors?

 

Apple Google patches

Apple and Google have both issued urgent patches to address actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities that were reportedly utilized in highly sophisticated real-world attacks.

Read at The Register→

 

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