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December 1, 2025

 
AI compute infrastructure demands

The massive infrastructure gap faced by entities like OpenAI is driving hyperscalers into a new era of leveraged financing and state-supported expansion for the next generation of compute facilities.

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Should governments prioritize building state-backed AI compute corridors over letting the private debt cycle handle infrastructure scaling?

Digital Connexion's eleven-billion-dollar investment in an AI-native campus is strategically positioned to establish India as a dominant force in the next phase of global compute infrastructure.

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Vertiv's strategic billion-dollar move with PurgeRite aims to gain dominance in the critical reliability layer that is now dictating the performance metrics for artificial intelligence cooling solutions.

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Data center environmental impact

Data center construction and expansion continue actively despite facing increasing risks and costs associated with insurance coverage.

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A recent study from UC Riverside indicates that the potential adverse health effects attributed to data center related pollution in California have tripled between 2019 and 2023.

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New Processing Benchmark

Achieving industry-wide consensus is vital for establishing new data processing benchmarks that will guide infrastructure decisions toward greater efficiency and return on investment in the era of heterogeneous computing.

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gpu vs gold

Despite the perception of extreme cost, a comparison of unit weight reveals that high-performance computing GPUs, such as those from Nvidia, are not currently more expensive per ounce than physical gold bullion.

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Digital Realty Expands

Digital Realty has inaugurated its AMS11 facility, further solidifying the Netherlands' established position as a primary hub for data center activity within the broader European market.

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canadian data order

A Canadian court order demanding that French cloud provider OVHcloud surrender customer data stored in Europe poses a significant challenge to the provider's assertions regarding digital sovereignty and data protection guarantees.

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Should European data sovereignty commitments legally override non-EU court orders for customer data access?

 
Chatter
The view from Reddit
“Just caused my first massive outage”

A recently promoted engineer details the paralyzing fear following a 12-hour system crash attributed to a suspected firmware bug in a new deployment, despite management assurances that the error was not their fault.

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“Email. Isn't. A. File. Transfer. Service.”

A frustrated administrator vents about the repetitive, exasperating need to explain to executives that email is not intended for transferring large batches of documents and that they should utilize dedicated file-sharing features within their Microsoft 365 license.

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“Why aren’t more companies feeding their internal docs/code into an internal RAG system?”

The poster shares success in deploying a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system using proprietary documentation and code, questioning why this powerful internal knowledge management technique has not seen wider adoption.

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Does using internal RAG systems provide a competitive advantage significant enough to justify the immediate deployment cost?

 

aws dns backstop

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has implemented a new DNS backstop mechanism intended to mitigate service disruption when its highly utilized US East region experiences instability, though it still allows for recovery time objectives up to one hour.

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obr budget leak

The Office for Budget Responsibility has appointed former National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin to investigate the security lapse that resulted in the Budget forecast being published online prematurely.

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