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The industry is entering a new phase characterized by massive leveraged buildouts, where state-backed initiatives, such as India's 2GW AI corridor, combine with hyperscaler debt cycles and OpenAI's significant infrastructure funding gap to reshape APAC compute.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Should governments prioritize building state-backed AI compute corridors over letting the private debt cycle handle infrastructure scaling?
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The evaluation of Digital Connexions' $11 billion investment in an artificial intelligence-native campus suggests this large-scale development could firmly establish India as the next major global compute hub.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Vertiv's recent $1 billion strategic acquisition is an aggressive attempt to establish dominance over the critical reliability layer that now ultimately governs the performance outcomes of artificial intelligence cooling solutions.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Data center environmental impact
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Data center construction and expansion continue actively despite facing increasing risks and costs associated with insurance coverage.
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Read at Bisnow→
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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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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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New Processing Benchmark
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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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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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gpu vs gold
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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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Read at The Register→
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Digital Realty Expands
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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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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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canadian data order
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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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Read at The Register→
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Should European data sovereignty commitments legally override non-EU court orders for customer data access?
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“Just caused my first massive outage”
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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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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Email. Isn't. A. File. Transfer. Service.”
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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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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Why aren’t more companies feeding their internal docs/code into an internal RAG system?”
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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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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Does using internal RAG systems provide a competitive advantage significant enough to justify the immediate deployment cost?
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aws dns backstop
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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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Read at The Register→
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obr budget leak
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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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Read at The Register→
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