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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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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Should Snowflake's $6bn AWS deal influence your cloud infrastructure strategy?
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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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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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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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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The expansion of hyperscale artificial intelligence campuses is creating significant demand for water and wastewater capacity, which is becoming a critical factor in site selection, influencing cooling strategies, municipal planning, and project approvals.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Should water availability be the primary factor for new AI data center locations?
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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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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The Environmental Protection Agency's initiative to expedite data center construction, while aiming to reduce regulatory hurdles, may lead to legal challenges and heightened environmental concerns.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Will the EPA's new rules for data centers face significant legal challenges?
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Australia's private investment has surged, largely driven by a boom in AI data centers, despite a slowdown in household spending.
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Read at TechRepublic→
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Texas's electrical grid, originally developed for wind power transmission through CREZ corridors, is increasingly attracting hyperscale artificial intelligence infrastructure due to its capacity and existing infrastructure.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Data center development feasibility and demand analysis are critically dependent on understanding demand signals, bankable commitments, power availability, and the conversion rate from announced to operational capacity.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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A tour of the TeraWulf and Schneider Electric campus in Buffalo, New York, provided insight into the operational requirements for powering and cooling future data centers, including a facility repurposed from a coal plant for AI workloads.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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“We are experimenting with risk based security awareness, looking for feedback.”
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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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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Long term growth in data center environment”
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A contractor supporting a Meta data center project in Louisiana seeks advice on long-term career paths, weighing DCIM versus Network/Systems Technician roles for growth, work-life balance, and salary potential, with a willingness to relocate for a FTE role at a hyperscale company.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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“what's a script you wrote once that's still saving you time years later”
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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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Read at r/sysadmin→
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