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December 12, 2025

 

oracle ai spending

Despite demonstrating strong cloud revenue and infrastructure growth, mounting debt associated with artificial intelligence investments has led to increased investor doubt regarding the scalability and timely execution of Oracle's AI strategy.

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Data center hardware security

As the artificial intelligence boom accelerates, critical semiconductor components such as high-performance GPUs alongside advanced CPUs, TPUs, and DPUs are defining the essential hardware landscape for data centers in 2025.

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Industry insights from 2025 highlight the necessity for data centers to integrate both cyber and physical security protocols to effectively mitigate emerging risks driven by artificial intelligence demands while adhering to budgetary limitations.

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Is integrating cyber and physical security the only viable strategy for mitigating AI-driven data center threats?

 

sovereignty meets speed

Nations, operators, and investors are strategically redefining infrastructure deployment by balancing the demands for rapid speed with requirements for sovereign cloud capabilities, often leveraging edge data centers.

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regulation as alpha

Regulatory approval timelines, rather than raw demand or capital availability, present the most significant bottleneck in digital infrastructure development, a factor sophisticated investors are beginning to strategically exploit.

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Infra/CAPITAL Summit

The infra/CAPITAL Summit 2026 is scheduled to take place in Paris, positioning itself as Europe's premier forum for hyperscale AI infrastructure discussions.

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ZincFive Awards

ZincFive has secured four accolades at the 2025 Power Technology Excellence Awards.

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Chatter
The view from Reddit
“The AppStack Was Pirated.”

A former VDI engineer recounts the chaotic discovery that a perpetually licensed Adobe Pro application stack, distributed across dozens of healthcare users, was operating without valid licenses due to a packaging engineer's circumvention of DRM.

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“What to do”

A recent homeowner, having relocated for tranquility, now faces existential dread as the adjacent agricultural land is rezoned and slated for massive digital infrastructure development.

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Should homeowners have veto power over adjacent land rezoning for large-scale digital infrastructure projects?

“Backhaul Pain + Security Policies… is there a better way?”

A network engineer expresses deep frustration with the latency and policy enforcement headaches caused by traditional VPN backhauling, questioning whether modern SASE solutions truly solve the architectural problem or just repackage legacy complexity.

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Nvidia management service

Nvidia is developing a new, optional paid infrastructure management service that, while not primarily intended for GPU monitoring, possesses the capability to verify the location of customer GPU stockpiles if opted into.

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