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Jun 1, 2026

 
Strategic compute capacity partnerships

Snowflake and AWS have entered into a five-year infrastructure agreement valued at $6 billion, which includes the utilization of Graviton compute instances.

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Should Snowflake's $6bn AWS deal influence your cloud infrastructure strategy?

Mistral AI is planning to deploy its artificial intelligence operations within a Digital Realty data center located in Paris, France, to expand its compute capacity.

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DDSP has secured $283 million in financing for a 45MW data center in Johor, Malaysia, which is reportedly pre-leased to a hyperscale customer.

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Environmental and regulatory oversight

Water and wastewater capacity are emerging as critical siting constraints for hyperscale artificial intelligence campuses, significantly influencing cooling choices, municipal planning, and project approvals as these facilities continue to scale.

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Should water availability be the primary factor for new AI data center locations?

Data centers can proactively shape their future by adopting responsible leadership practices to guide the industry's narrative and avoid external regulation.

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The EPA's initiative to streamline data center construction, while intended to reduce regulatory hurdles, may lead to legal challenges and heightened environmental concerns among stakeholders.

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Will the EPA's new rules for data centers face significant legal challenges?

 
Regional AI infrastructure growth

A significant boom in artificial intelligence data center development has led to a sharp increase in private investment in Australia, even as a slowdown in household spending highlights a growing economic disparity.

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Texas's original Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) transmission corridors, built to transport wind power, are now increasingly attracting hyperscale AI infrastructure, suggesting the state may have inadvertently created an ideal grid for AI development.

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Effective data center development hinges on rigorous analysis of demand signals and power deliverability, with a critical focus on converting announced power capacity into actual energized capacity.

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Data Center Knowledge visited the TeraWulf and Schneider Electric campus in Buffalo, New York, to examine the infrastructure required for powering and cooling advanced data centers.

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Chatter
The view from Reddit
“We are experimenting with risk based security awareness, looking for feedback.”

A company is shifting from uniform security awareness training to a risk-based approach, focusing remediation efforts on employees who generate the most risk and seeking feedback on metrics and scoring.

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“Long term growth in data center environment”

A contractor working on a Meta data center project in Louisiana seeks advice on choosing between a DCIM or Network/Systems Technician career path for long-term growth, work-life balance, and achieving a six-figure salary, with aspirations to work for Meta or Google.

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“what's a script you wrote once that's still saving you time years later”

A sysadmin shares the enduring value of a PowerShell script that identifies disabled AD accounts with active mailboxes, saving significant licensing costs, and a bash script that monitors disk usage and alerts via Slack after a past outage.

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