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Elon Musk is aggressively expanding xAI's Colossus facility into a massive 2-gigawatt artificial intelligence powerhouse, intensifying the competition surrounding compute resources, energy requirements, and deployment scale.
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Read at TechRepublic→
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Should Musk's AI energy demands be prioritized over local residential power needs?
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Starcloud successfully launched an orbital AI data center, testing off-planet compute as a potential solution for terrestrial constraints like power and cooling, while facing unresolved questions regarding operational costs and long-term viability.
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Read at Data Center Frontier  →
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GridFree has activated its inaugural 'Power Foundry' site, South Dallas One in Texas, which is designated to support artificial intelligence data center workloads as part of a larger planned 5 Gigawatt cluster.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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nvidia h200 china demand
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Following the lifting of sales restrictions, Chinese technology firms are placing massive orders, reportedly exceeding two million units, for Nvidia's H200 accelerators, testing the immediate supply capacity of manufacturers like TSMC.
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Read at The Register→
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Reviewing the annual predictions for 2025, which were characterized by high AI density, power limitations, megacampuses, and liquid cooling adoption, reveals that execution quality proved more determinant than raw demand in shaping market outcomes.
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Read at Data Center Frontier →
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This intelligence briefing synthesizes nine key reports to provide insight into the strategic direction of AI-driven infrastructure development, financial investments, and overall market trajectory for the fourth quarter of 2025.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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SoftBank's $4 billion acquisition of DigitalBridge signifies a strategic pivot toward owning critical AI infrastructure, integrating a vast digital platform spanning data centers, fiber, and towers to control long-term assets necessary for next-generation AI projects.
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Read at Data Center Frontier →
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“Windows sucks at Automatic Time Zones.”
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A detailed technical investigation reveals that erratic time zone switching on Windows laptops is caused by Microsoft's reliance on undocumented Wi-Fi geolocation databases, leading the author to develop a custom monitoring script while awaiting vendor resolution.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“I Warned them and they didn't Listen!”
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The author vents frustration after management ignored explicit warnings about impending VMware licensing cost hikes following the Broadcom acquisition, only to balk at the resulting massive renewal quote.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Should IT leadership have proactively budgeted for expected VMware licensing cost increases?
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“IT IS NOT A COST CENTER”
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The author passionately argues that IT functions as the essential operating system for any modern business, not merely an overhead expense to be minimized, and urges colleagues to adopt a value-multiplier mindset.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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