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Jul 13, 2026

 
AI data center power demands

Anthropic secured a 401 MW Kentucky AI campus lease with TeraWulf valued at $19 billion, transforming contracted AI demand into infrastructure value and influencing data center financing.

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Should AI campuses prioritize sustainable energy sourcing over rapid expansion?

Microsoft's emissions increased by 25% in one year, driven significantly by the construction of AI-focused data centers and their associated energy demands.

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Anthropic has signed a 20-year lease for a Kentucky data center with TeraWulf, valued at $19 billion, while TeraWulf is also selling its stake in a joint venture with Fluidstack.

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Microsoft reported a 25 percent increase in CO2 emissions, attributed to data center expansion and a change in reporting practices for renewable energy credits.

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Are companies accurately reporting renewable energy credits for emissions?

Meta planned its 1 GW Canadian AI campus in Alberta by securing essential power and transmission resources years before the official project announcement.

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SambaNova has successfully raised $1 billion in its Series F funding round, valuing the AI compute company at $11 billion, with JPMorgan Chase planning to deploy its rack-scale data units for on-premise inference.

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DeepSeek is reportedly developing its own custom artificial intelligence chip, aiming to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei for inference processing.

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The data center industry can earn community trust by demonstrating transparency and addressing concerns, though significant challenges and missteps remain prevalent.

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The FCC has been urged to conduct an environmental review for the burgeoning orbital data center industry due to its potential environmental impact.

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Should the FCC mandate environmental reviews for orbital data centers?

 

Micron announces a $250 billion investment for U.S. expansion, highlighting the critical role of memory in the AI economy, with SK Hynix also debuting ADRs.

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Chatter
The view from Reddit
“A collection of my past mistakes”

An infrastructure engineer with a decade of experience humorously recounts three significant blunders, including pulling the wrong hard drive, unplugging a critical network cable, and applying an incorrect patch, and shares how adopting the 'pointing and calling' method has drastically reduced future errors.

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“Disappointing Google Candidate Experience”

A candidate expresses deep disappointment and confusion after a lengthy interview process for a Google data center TPM role, feeling that the feedback about a 'technical gap' was unsubstantiated and that their time was wasted.

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“I've been building a free IBM AIX & Linux learning platform as a side project — looking for feedback from fellow sysadmins”

An IBM AIX System Administrator has developed a free, self-hosted learning platform for AIX and Linux, featuring articles, roadmaps, quizzes, and progress tracking, and is seeking community feedback on its usability and content.

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Meta aims to deploy its fourth custom artificial intelligence chip by September, seeking to reduce operational costs and lessen its reliance on Nvidia and AMD.

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The data center industry is seeing leases transform into financial assets, as hyperscalers, investors, and operators vie for compute capacity by securing future contracts.

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Cloud security and sovereignty

This piece explores a fundamental flaw in confidential computing's trust mechanism, questioning whether a viable solution exists for this critical security vulnerability.

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Is confidential computing’s core trust mechanism fundamentally broken?

Enterprises are reconsidering their cloud strategies due to data sovereignty concerns, leading to the repatriation of workloads to better control data location and compliance.

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Modern IT infrastructures face escalating security threats from AI-driven attacks, cloud misconfigurations, insider risks, and expanding attack surfaces, demanding robust defenses.

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Duos Edge AI has entered into an agreement for an additional 2-megawatt deployment, signifying further expansion of its edge computing infrastructure.

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South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI is expanding its presence by entering the European datacenter market with its AI chips.

Read at The Register→

 

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