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Blackstone's data center real estate investment trust has successfully met its initial fundraising target of $1.75 billion during its debut.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Has Blackstone's successful data center REIT fundraising signaled a robust investor appetite for AI infrastructure?
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Moody's forecasts indicate that hyperscaler capital expenditures are expected to increase by $85 billion, nearing $1 trillion by 2027, with projected spending of $785 billion in 2026.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Investment firm Snowhawk has closed its first digital opportunities fund, garnering $1.3 billion in commitments for Fund I and co-investments.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The proliferation of dense GPU clusters driven by artificial intelligence is fundamentally altering data center designs, creating a distinct divide between specialized AI facilities and traditional enterprise data centers.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Are data centers designed for AI's power and cooling needs fundamentally different from traditional ones?
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During a DCD>Talks session, Vertiv's Maurizio Frizziero discussed how increasing chip temperatures affect global cooling infrastructure and identified three key pillars for advancing the AI transformation.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Mitigating risks to infrastructure resiliency
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Despite a general decline in data center outages, the burgeoning demand from artificial intelligence facilities poses a significant threat to recent resiliency gains, according to research by the Uptime Institute.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Does the AI boom pose a significant risk to recent data center resiliency gains?
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Federation architecture offers a secure approach to integrating IT and OT systems, enabling centralized insights and mitigating AI-related risks, according to Davoud Shahlaei.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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A significant shift from cryptocurrency mining to artificial intelligence is underway as former mining specialists seek to capitalize on the immense demand for hyperscale data center capacity.
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Read at Data Center Richness→
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CoreWeave distinguishes itself as a specialized compute factory rather than a traditional cloud provider, addressing the unique demands of AI workloads that hyperscalers are not ideally positioned to meet and establishing a new offtake structure as a core business model for this emerging operator category.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Nscale's recent $790 million financing for its Norway campus highlights the increasing competition for energy capacity, industrial capital, and grid access driven by AI infrastructure demands.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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“Advice for getting into data center work?”
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An aspiring data center technician in the St. Louis area, with only PC building experience, seeks advice on essential qualifications for entry-level roles, the value of college versus certifications, and the potential benefit of a home lab.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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“Advice on new role as a Data Center Controls tech”
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A professional transitioning from an oil refinery background to a Google data center controls technician role is seeking advice and resources to quickly acquire necessary skills, particularly in PLC and networking, given their limited direct experience in data center controls.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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“Heads up: new Google support scam uses a REAL email from Google”
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A user details a sophisticated Google support scam where a scammer spoofed their email to trigger a legitimate-looking Google email, using it as 'proof' while employing aggressive tactics and threats.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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