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Emerging topics we picked up on in the 52 Data Center articles we scanned this week: Over $38B in new mega-campus projects confirmed for Wisconsin, Michigan, and Europe, Alphabet to acquire partner Intersect for $4.75B to secure power execution, DOE recruits tech giants for Trump administration's 'Genesis Mission'. Read the full Week in Review →
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The fourth quarter of 2025 solidified the interconnected nature of power availability, available capital, and national policy in determining the future scale and location of the global Artificial Intelligence buildout.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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The 2025 INCOMPAS Show will focus on the intersection between infrastructure policy and the evolving requirements of artificial intelligence.
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Read at Data Center POST→
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SoftBank Buys DigitalBridge
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SoftBank has announced its intention to acquire the data center investment firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Does SoftBank's $4B acquisition of DigitalBridge signal a healthy market consolidation or excessive leverage?
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Copper price tariffs
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Copper prices have reached a ten-year high, driven by ongoing tariffs impacting US builders, which has significant implications for data center construction and material costs.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Wi-Fi 8 Reliability
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The upcoming Wi-Fi 8 standard, championed by Intel, is anticipated to prioritize network reliability through enhanced scheduling and intelligent access-point handoffs over raw speed improvements.
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Read at The Register→
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opinion • Future Tech Trends
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An opinion piece speculates on major technological shifts expected to define the future beyond the current intense focus on artificial intelligence.
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Read at The Register→
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“Anyone else stuck between a hostile local IT team and corporate IT?”
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A new hire is struggling within a rigid, legacy IT department where long-tenured staff aggressively resist modern tools and actively sabotage collaboration with the parent company's corporate IT structure, creating an exhausting cultural conflict despite high compensation.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Would you transfer to a new company to escape a hostile local IT team conflict?
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“Post-mortem sanity check: how do you handle “un-scannable” expiries (API keys, internal certs) without spreadsheets?”
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Following an outage caused by an expired third-party API key that was poorly tracked in a forgotten spreadsheet, the author seeks proven, automated methods for managing the lifecycle of non-public digital secrets like signing keys and internal certificates.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“follow up re: Microsoft has gotten too big to fail”
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Following up on a previous support ordeal, the user recounts how Microsoft escalation engineers, after weeks of silence, demanded a phone call only to inform them that the existing ticket was out of scope and required opening an entirely new incident.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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