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Emerging topics we picked up on in the 79 Data Center articles we scanned this week: - Hyperscalers and regulators pivot to 'pay-your-way' model for grid upgrades
- Data center demand forces manufacturers to deprioritize consumer and automotive silicon
- Thermal limits emerge as primary constraint over power capacity for AI assets
Read the full Week in Review →
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Revisiting data center design principles is crucial for effectively architecting infrastructure to support scaled artificial intelligence workloads requiring real-time intelligence processing.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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In a sponsored discussion, Kat Sullivan interviews Sara Zawoyski of nVent regarding strategic design approaches for protecting critical data center infrastructure and how artificial intelligence is impacting these protective measures.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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An interview with Jim Black, senior director at Microsoft, detailed the critical mission of the newly formed Security Industry Association advisory board to address escalating data center security challenges.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Should the new SIA advisory board focus primarily on establishing mandatory security standards for all data centers?
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Nvidia is committing $2 billion to CoreWeave to secure 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity, reinforcing its strategy to lock down computing resources amid soaring demand for its graphical processing units.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Humain and Infra have established a non-binding agreement for a $1.2 billion financing package designated to support the development of 250MW of data center capacity in Saudi Arabia.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Sharon AI secured a $500 million debt facility from USD.AI intended to fund the expansion of its artificial intelligence infrastructure across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Microsoft Inference Chip
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Microsoft has introduced its Maia 200 inference chip, which is fabricated using TSMC's 3-nanometer process and is engineered to deliver accelerated artificial intelligence inference processing capabilities.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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EU X Grok Probe
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The European Commission has initiated an investigation into the social media platform X following concerns that its generative artificial intelligence model, Grok, allowed users to create sexually explicit imagery, including child sexual abuse material.
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Read at The Register→
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Should the EU impose severe penalties on X over Grok's inability to prevent explicit deepfake content generation?
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DayOne Finland Expansion
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DayOne is developing a new 560 megawatt data center project north of Helsinki, consolidating its Finnish expansion less than a month after securing over $2 billion in new funding.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
More coverage at Data Center Knowledge →
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“What is The Longest You Have Let a Windows Update Run and be Successful?”
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A technician shares a harrowing tale of monitoring a critical legacy server update for over 24 hours under extreme customer pressure, contrasting it with the current slow progress of updating an old laptop.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Do you allow any gear racked backwards?”
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An employee recounts being reprimanded by a supervisor for flagging a critical thermal issue caused by customer equipment exhausting hot air into the cold aisle, leading to a confrontation over prioritizing root cause analysis over temporary HVAC adjustments.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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“I feel like I missed out on the Golden Age of IT work”
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A network engineer at a hyperscaler laments the loss of hands-on troubleshooting in the modern era of automated tooling, romanticizing the perceived 'golden age' of manually fixing infrastructure.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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