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Blackstone's real estate investment trust focused on data centers has successfully met its initial fundraising target of $1.75 billion.
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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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AI-driven data center design evolution
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The increasing density of GPU clusters is transforming data centers into power and cooling plants, significantly altering design principles and widening the disparity between AI-focused 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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New research from the Uptime Institute indicates that while data center outages are generally declining, the rapid expansion of AI facilities could potentially reverse this positive trend, threatening previous resiliency gains.
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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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Davoud Shahlaei explains that Federation architecture offers a secure approach to IT-OT convergence in the AI era, balancing its advantages with essential safeguards to mitigate AI-driven risks while enabling centralized monitoring and insights.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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A notable shift from cryptocurrency mining to artificial intelligence is underway as former specialists aim to capitalize on the massive hyperscale data center demand.
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Read at Data Center Richness→
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CoreWeave operates not as a cloud provider but as a dedicated compute factory, with its offtake structure representing a new business model that addresses a market gap hyperscalers cannot fill, defining a new category of operator.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Nscale's recent 790 million dollar financing for its Norway campus signifies a shift towards utility-style agreements, as artificial intelligence infrastructure increasingly competes for energy resources, industrial capital, and grid access.
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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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