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Dec 30, 2025

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 →

 
AI infrastructure policy shifts

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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The 2025 INCOMPAS Show will focus on the intersection between infrastructure policy and the evolving requirements of artificial intelligence.

Read at Data Center POST→

 

SoftBank Buys DigitalBridge

SoftBank has announced its intention to acquire the data center investment firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion.

Read at Bisnow→

 

Does SoftBank's $4B acquisition of DigitalBridge signal a healthy market consolidation or excessive leverage?

 

Copper price tariffs

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.

Read at Bisnow→

 

Wi-Fi 8 Reliability

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.

Read at The Register→

 

opinion • Future Tech Trends

An opinion piece speculates on major technological shifts expected to define the future beyond the current intense focus on artificial intelligence.

Read at The Register→

 
Chatter
The view from Reddit
“Anyone else stuck between a hostile local IT team and corporate IT?”

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.

Read at r/sysadmin→

 

Would you transfer to a new company to escape a hostile local IT team conflict?

“Post-mortem sanity check: how do you handle “un-scannable” expiries (API keys, internal certs) without spreadsheets?”

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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“follow up re: Microsoft has gotten too big to fail”

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.

Read at r/sysadmin→

 

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