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Despite a record pace of announcements for artificial intelligence mega data centers, many proposed projects face potential cancellations or stagnation due to obstacles related to power availability, regulatory permitting, financing difficulties, and public backlash.
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Read at TechRepublic→
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Amid threats of blackouts from cold weather, the United States government is allowing data centers to rely on backup generators for power supply.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Do you support temporary EPA waivers allowing data centers to rely on backup generators during grid emergencies?
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On-site battery energy storage systems are positioned as fundamental infrastructure for data centers, determining the ability of facilities to scale operations confidently.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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EPRI's Chad Boyer discussed the potential role of small modular reactors in resolving the power supply challenges for data centers and the obstacles involved in aligning new energy strategies with surging demand.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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In a DCD>Studio session, Schneider Electric's Katie Boeh discussed energy management, power distribution, and operations driven by artificial intelligence with DCD's Claire Fletcher.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Pacifico obtained the largest United States power generation air permit ever issued, totaling 7.65 gigawatts, for its GW Ranch project located in West Texas.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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NextEra Energy has set a target to procure 15 gigawatts of new power generation capacity by 2035 specifically to support data center hubs, in response to reported interest from large load users.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The immense energy scale required for artificial intelligence buildouts across America is transforming the procurement of clean power purchase agreements from a sustainability consideration into a critical, binding infrastructure constraint.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
More coverage at Global Data Center Hub →
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Agentic artificial intelligence inference operations present a strain on modern memory hierarchies because the stateless nature of queries causes the key-value cache to accumulate when handling long contexts, as recomputation is costly.
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Read at The Register→
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CBRE's 2026 outlook suggests that while demand for data centers in the United States is surging due to artificial intelligence, leading to historic low vacancy and higher pricing, delivery timelines are now constrained by power availability and construction risk.
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Read at Data Center Frontier  →
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“Anyone else stuck between a hostile local IT team and corporate IT?”
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A new hire is struggling within a rigid, legacy IT department where long-tenured staff aggressively resist modern tools and actively sabotage collaboration with the parent company's corporate IT structure, creating an exhausting cultural conflict despite high compensation.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Have you considered leaving a company due to irreconcilable cultural conflicts between local and corporate IT teams?
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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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“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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Standardizing data center construction models
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Data center operators are currently evaluating the trade-offs between undertaking greenfield construction and brownfield retrofitting projects, balancing factors like scalability, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability goals for next-generation infrastructure.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Edged US is accelerating the deployment of high-density artificial intelligence data center campuses in major metropolitan areas by utilizing waterless cooling, standardized designs, and integrated partnerships to minimize water usage and permitting delays in constrained markets.
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Read at Data Center Frontier →
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Is switching to standardized, waterless cooling designs the best strategy for rapid, high-density AI campus deployment?
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IXP.US is proposing an initiative focused on bridging the digital divide by bringing internet exchange points and artificial intelligence inference capabilities to currently underserved domestic markets.
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Read at Data Center Richness→
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The increasing sophistication of artificial intelligence threats necessitates the adoption of an integrated and adaptive security ecosystem to proactively anticipate vulnerabilities and maintain data center resilience.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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