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Mar 16, 2026

 
Singapore AI infrastructure investment

Moody's issued a significant warning regarding AI infrastructure financing, while Singapore is making a substantial $3.9B bet on AI, and Saudi Arabia is aggressively acquiring land for data centers, indicating major capital, power, and sovereign strategies reshaping global AI infrastructure.

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Bridge Data Centres is planning a substantial investment between $2.3 billion and $4 billion to expand digital infrastructure in Singapore, likely focusing on data center development.

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Shift toward gigawatt-scale campuses

A Bloom Energy report identifies power availability as the primary constraint on AI data center expansion, driving the development of gigawatt campuses, on-site power generation, and significant shifts within the US data center market.

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Should utility companies prioritize providing power for AI data centers over standard residential needs?

Nscale is reportedly in discussions to acquire the 8GW Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, which has already cleared regulatory hurdles and secured necessary power equipment.

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A new data center development in Adams County, Ohio, is confirmed to begin operations with an initial 100 megawatts in 2028, scaling up to 1.3 gigawatts by 2032.

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In-house AI chip development

Amazon Web Services is collaborating with chip manufacturer Cerebras on artificial intelligence inference disaggregation technology, which will be implemented within AWS data centers using the Amazon Bedrock platform.

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Meta's updated MTIA chip roadmap signifies a new era in AI data center architecture, driven by hyperscalers redesigning the entire infrastructure stack from silicon and connectivity to rack density, cooling, and power strategies.

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Perplexity is positioning its artificial intelligence service for enterprise adoption, extending its cloud computing capabilities even as businesses remain cautious about delegating operational tasks to software agents.

Read at The Register→

 
United Kingdom AI infrastructure strategy

The United Kingdom government is allocating £45 million to acquire a new artificial intelligence-driven supercomputer, named 'Sunrise,' which is slated to be operational this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Culham campus for complex nuclear fusion simulations.

Read at The Register→

The British government is moving forward with reforms to nuclear power planning and regulation, aiming to expedite atomic projects necessary for supplying reliable power to residential areas and data centers, though compromises on speed versus cost and safety are anticipated.

Read at The Register→

 
Local opposition to data centers

A municipality in Massachusetts has enacted a temporary one-year prohibition on the development and operation of new data center facilities.

Read at Bisnow→

A local community situated adjacent to Data Center Alley is engaged in a debate regarding the acceptability of welcoming the expanding data center sector.

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Increasing community opposition is becoming a significant obstacle in the development of major data center projects, indicating a shift where local political dynamics and resource concerns are increasingly dictating the locations for AI infrastructure.

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Should local community opposition hold veto power over nationally significant infrastructure projects?

Elon Musk's xAI has received approval for a power plant in Mississippi, despite facing community opposition regarding environmental and public health concerns.

Read at TechRepublic→

A county in the Houston area has officially rejected a proposed tax incentive package for a $3.5 billion data center development project.

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Comstock has officially launched a new data center platform, an event highlighted in the District of Columbia Deal Sheet.

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Chatter
The view from Reddit
“I got tired of laggy BIOS video, so I built a KVM that pipes pre-OS output directly into an SSH terminal”

Frustrated with poor remote management video quality, a builder created a custom hardware KVM using a Radxa Zero 3W to capture and stream pre-OS BIOS/UEFI output as a text-based SSH terminal, incorporating read-only Btrfs snapshots for offline data protection.

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“[VENT] Getting tired of unserious/imposter IT leadership.”

A highly certified, self-made IT Director expresses deep frustration with incompetent leadership who rely on expensive contractors and purchase unsuitable hardware, arguing that technical expertise, not just management skills, should dictate senior IT roles.

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Should senior IT leadership roles require demonstrated, hands-on technical proficiency over purely managerial credentials?

“TOTP Fatigue: A Sysadmin's rant”

A seasoned administrator vents about the exhausting frequency of using time-based one-time passwords for various tools, lamenting the poor adoption of superior FIDO2 security methods across essential platforms.

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Should large organizations mandate FIDO2 adoption immediately to replace less secure TOTP methods?

 

A buyer's guide assists stakeholders in selecting appropriate colocation providers, optimizing the physical space utilized, and effectively managing the colocated server infrastructure.

Read at Data Center Knowledge→

 

Amazon Web Services recently marked the twentieth anniversary of its Simple Storage Service, revealing operational scale information suggesting the cloud storage service now manages hundreds of exabytes of data.

Read at The Register→

 

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