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Microsoft and Meta have committed an additional $50 billion towards data center leases in the last quarter, increasing the total future commitments for hyperscalers beyond $700 billion.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Investors are expressing concern over potential overbuilding and weak returns as United States hyperscaler capital expenditure is projected by Moody's to exceed $700 billion in 2026, representing a six-fold increase since 2022.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Do you believe US hyperscaler capex growth will lead to weak ROI by 2026?
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Amazon's fourth quarter 2025 earnings reveal a strategic mandate focused on two hundred billion dollars for infrastructure, driven by AWS reacceleration and a four gigawatt capacity expansion in anticipation of vertical artificial intelligence infrastructure requirements.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Oracle mitigated concerns regarding the resource demands of artificial intelligence data centers by reporting stronger-than-anticipated quarterly earnings results.
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Read at Bisnow→
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The United Kingdom government is considering reforms to fast-track grid connections for strategically important assets like data centers, a move that has angered housing developers due to potential decade-long delays for other projects.
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Read at The Register→
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Should the UK government grant data centers priority grid access over housing projects?
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A proposed 1 gigawatt data center development in North Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, which could involve an investment of up to £7 billion, has received necessary planning permission.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Telescent has launched a high-density optical circuit switching solution specifically designed to support the demands of artificial intelligence graphics processing unit clusters.
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Read at Data Center POST→
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Ayar Labs and Wiwynn are collaborating on the development of co-packaged optical infrastructure for artificial intelligence workloads to overcome the limitations posed by traditional copper interconnects.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The startup Lightmatter asserts that its newest optical engine can reduce the volume of fiber optic cabling required in modern data centers by fifty percent or more, achieving this improvement without relying on chip co-packaging technology.
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Read at The Register→
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Ayar Labs is collaborating with Wiwynn to develop a reference design for a photonic rack system capable of integrating over one thousand accelerators, significantly exceeding the density of current large-scale server configurations.
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Read at The Register→
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Selecting an appropriate cooling architecture for mixed-density data halls requires careful consideration of prevailing workloads, existing facility limitations, and operational team capabilities.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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The primary constraint impeding the current surge in data center investment is identified not as capital, location, or energy availability, but rather a shortage of skilled labor.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Is the skilled labor shortage the single greatest constraint on data center expansion?
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Economist Peter Linneman offers his perspective on the influence of artificial intelligence and contends that the current economic health is stronger than commonly perceived.
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Read at Bisnow→
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“How I nuked the network at a small gaming facility with one line.”
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A junior technician recounts the harrowing experience of accidentally erasing a crucial VLAN via a simple command on a Cisco switch, only to discover the entire site network was dependent on a poorly configured VTP environment left by prior consultants.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Unlabelled SMR hard drives are a cancer”
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A technician recounts a month-long debugging saga involving inconsistent RAID performance, ultimately tracing the issue to secretly installed, unadvertised SMR drives from Seagate that were likely donated by an unaware previous owner.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“My AWS L4 Data Center Technician Loop Interview Experience (Just got an offer)”
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A candidate details their four-loop AWS interview process, sharing specific hardware and networking technical questions encountered, while questioning the financial trade-off of accepting an L3 offer instead of the L4 position they interviewed for.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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Officials speaking at Palantir's AIPCON event stated that the company's Maven Smart System has significantly accelerated the United States Department of Defense's target selection and engagement timeline during strikes related to Operation Epic Fury.
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Read at The Register→
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Should military target selection timelines be drastically shortened by commercial AI tools?
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Developing a security compliance plan for a data center should incorporate numerous standards, audit schedules, and upcoming 2026 requirements related to artificial intelligence governance and sustainability reporting.
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Read at TechTarget DC Tips & Advice→
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Savills is moving forward with the acquisition of Eastdil Secured in a transaction valued at $1.1 billion.
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Read at Bisnow→
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