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Attacks by Iranian drones targeting data centers highlight the geopolitical risks that large technology corporations face 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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Moody's forecasts that capital expenditure by hyperscalers will approach $700 billion due to surging artificial intelligence demand, although firms are strategically pacing data center construction and chip orders to mitigate the risk of overbuilding capacity.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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The ByteDance-VNET deal in China may represent the emerging playbook for financing and deploying gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure, highlighting a new approach to large-scale deployment.
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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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Nvidia is challenging Intel and AMD by launching new liquid-cooled rack systems at GTC that incorporate 256 of its custom Vera central processing units, deviating from its previous focus on graphics processing units or language processing units.
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Read at The Register→
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Nebius has secured a significant five-year agreement valued at $27 billion with Meta to power deployments of Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform, thereby expanding Nebius's artificial intelligence cloud footprint as hyperscalers compete for next-generation GPU capacity.
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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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When a data center unexpectedly becomes a liability, understanding the implications and potential consequences is crucial for stakeholders.
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Read at Data Center POST→
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Predictions for the upcoming Nvidia GTC 2026 conference suggest a focus on how Nvidia plans to address performance bottlenecks in generative artificial intelligence by improving token handling, potentially through solutions involving Groq technology and OpenClaw.
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Read at The Register→
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To accommodate the escalating demands of artificial intelligence, data halls with mixed-density requirements necessitate cooling strategies that are carefully aligned with specific workloads, facility limitations, and on-site operational teams.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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NVIDIA is developing the Space-1 Vera Rubin module for use in orbiting data centers, indicating the chipmaker's expansion into space computing for artificial intelligence applications.
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Read at Data Center Richness→
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As data centers grow to campus scale to support artificial intelligence infrastructure, operators are adopting comprehensive, layered physical security models enhanced by technologies like artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and video analytics.
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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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