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Jan 5, 2026

Emerging topics we picked up on in the 41 Data Center articles we scanned this week:

  • SoftBank to Acquire DigitalBridge for $4B to Secure AI Infrastructure Assets
  • AI Infrastructure Scales to Gigawatt Levels with Musk’s Colossus and GridFree’s 5GW Plan
  • Broadcom’s Aggressive VMware Tactics Trigger Forced Infrastructure Migrations

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The view from Reddit
“Does anyone else feel like they can't predict how long anything will take anymore?”

An overwhelmed IT professional laments the impossibility of setting reliable service expectations due to unpredictable variables like phantom compute slowdowns, vendor rug-pulls, and external service outages, questioning if they need to adopt airliner-level redundancy.

Read at r/sysadmin→

“Is the pace of delivery getting this bad at other places?”

A design/construction administrator at a hyperscaler expresses dismay that leadership's relentless push for faster delivery, without adding staff, is causing critical engineering reviews and submittals to be dangerously overlooked.

Read at r/datacenter→

“I’m unsure what the “next step” is supposed to look like”

A data center operations worker, comfortable with daily tasks but bewildered by the blurred lines between operational roles, questions whether specialization or breadth is the key to long-term advancement.

Read at r/datacenter→

 

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