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Drone strikes targeting data centers in Iran suggest potential future security risks for major technology companies operating globally.
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Read at Bisnow→
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A report indicates that a bank data center in Iran was struck by a missile, following Iran's statement that regional banking targets are now considered legitimate retaliation objectives.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Does this attack signal that data centers are now legitimate targets in international conflicts?
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Financial analysts project that capital expenditures by hyperscalers will approach $700 billion due to escalating artificial intelligence demand, although these firms are strategically pacing data center construction and chip procurement to mitigate risks associated with overbuilding capacity.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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A deal between ByteDance and VNET in China is signaling a new strategic playbook for financing and deploying massive artificial intelligence infrastructure projects at the gigawatt scale.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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The rapid expansion of data center capacity in Britain is potentially creating challenges that might outpace current sustainability efforts, resulting in significant energy demands measured in gigawatts.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Should UK regulators impose immediate energy use caps on new data center construction permits?
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Open Access Data Centres CEO Ayotunde Coker discussed Africa's data center expansion, the open access model, and infrastructure preparedness for increasing artificial intelligence demands during a session with DCD’s James Raddings.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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At GTC, Nvidia introduced new liquid-cooled rack systems powered by 256 of its custom Vera central processing units, signaling a direct challenge to established central processing unit manufacturers like Intel and AMD.
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Read at The Register→
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Meta and Nebius finalized a substantial five-year agreement valued at $27 billion to deploy next-generation Nvidia GPU capacity, thereby expanding Nebius's artificial intelligence cloud presence amidst a broader hyperscaler race for advanced hardware.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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“Our dev team is the weak point in our cyber security and they don't want to change”
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A self-appointed IT administrator struggles to enforce necessary security hardening, such as standardizing endpoints away from unmanaged Linux systems, against a rapidly grown development team accustomed to excessive privileges.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Should internal development teams be required to adopt standardized security hardening processes immediately?
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“HP Laptop had no thermal paste from the factory”
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An IT support professional recounts discovering that a brand-new, high-spec HP laptop was severely underperforming due to a complete absence of thermal paste on the CPU, a manufacturing oversight they suspect might affect other deployed units.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Saturday Discussion: Personality”
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A manager reflects on the necessity of soft skills, detailing how several technically proficient employees were terminated for behavioral issues like substance use and combative attitudes, emphasizing that personality fit often trumps technical genius.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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This piece examines the specific technical advantages provided by bare metal server configurations when utilized to support demanding artificial intelligence workloads.
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Read at Data Center POST→
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Predictions for the Nvidia GTC 2026 conference suggest a focus on the challenges faced by graphics processing unit architecture in handling the high volume of tokens generated by popular generative artificial intelligence workloads.
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Read at The Register→
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NTT is advancing its $10 billion expansion initiative by securing new data center commitments totaling 115 megawatts to support the increasing requirements for artificial intelligence and high-density computing infrastructure.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Nvidia is developing the space-1 Vera Rubin module to support artificial intelligence data centers operating in orbital environments.
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Read at Data Center Richness→
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Gimlet Labs and d-Matrix are collaborating to enhance the performance of agentic artificial intelligence inference operations by integrating specialized inference accelerators with graphics processing units, aiming for significant improvements in speed and power efficiency.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Will specialized inference accelerators, rather than general GPUs, define future AI speed benchmarks?
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Mountain US
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A new facility slated for development at a cost of $200 million will be dedicated to the production of modular data centers.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 technology aims to significantly improve the realism of in-game characters by advancing AI image enhancement beyond current graphical limitations.
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Read at The Register→
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