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Emerging topics we picked up on in the 115 Data Center articles we scanned this week: - Operators secure permits for natural gas and nuclear self-generation
- SpaceX files for million-satellite orbital data center constellation
- DRAM prices projected to double as AI demand hits supply limits
Read the full Week in Review →
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While some analysts deem the concept of orbital data centers achievable, SpaceX's ambitious proposal, requiring the deployment of one million satellites, faces substantial technical, operational, and financial obstacles.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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As part of its space-plus initiative, China is planning to construct data centers in orbit within the next few years, indicating a significant strategic shift toward digital infrastructure deployment beyond Earth's atmosphere.
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Read at TechRepublic→
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The Federal Communications Commission is soliciting public comments for a period of one month regarding SpaceX's proposal for a million orbital data centers.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Do you plan to submit feedback to the FCC regarding SpaceX's orbital data center proposal?
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Accelerating investments in artificial intelligence capital expenditure by Amazon, coupled with power shortages and shifting geopolitical policies, are fundamentally redefining the global data center infrastructure map.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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The Vice President of Network Engineering at AWS, Matt Rehder, highlighted the cloud provider's strategic focus on artificial intelligence infrastructure innovations, including hollow-core fiber, as the company plans an additional two hundred billion dollars in capital expenditure for 2026.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Firmus secured a $10 billion debt financing facility, led by Blackstone and Coatue, to support the rollout of its Project Southgate artificial intelligence factory infrastructure.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Riley Thompson advises that chief financial officers must revise their capital efficiency and compute scaling strategies because the landscape of artificial intelligence infrastructure financing is rapidly transforming.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Cisco introduced the Silicon One G300, a new 102.4 terabits per second ASIC, aiming to compete with Broadcom's Tomahawk 6 and Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics by leveraging P4 programmability for large-scale artificial intelligence network clusters.
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Read at The Register→
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Taiwan's vice-premier has publicly stated that relocating forty percent of the nation's semiconductor manufacturing capacity to the United States, a goal set by the Trump administration, is geographically and logistically unfeasible.
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Read at The Register→
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Should the US continue pushing for significant semiconductor manufacturing relocation out of Taiwan?
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The European Union has initiated the NanoIC pilot line, jointly funded by the EU, national governments, and ASML, to oversee the development of sub-2 nanometer chips within the continent.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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TSMC has reversed its prior plan for its second fabrication plant in Kumamoto, Japan, opting instead to produce three-nanometer artificial intelligence chips rather than the previously planned seven-nanometer components.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The European data center market is entering a crucial period characterized by structural difficulties, as indicated by the EUDCA's recent report highlighting the rapid geographic decentralization away from traditional metropolitan hubs.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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VIRTUS provides insights into their approach for redefining and managing data center expansion strategies across the European market.
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Read at Data Center POST→
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Brussels has accused Meta of violating European Union competition regulations by preventing rival artificial intelligence assistants from accessing WhatsApp, prompting consideration of emergency measures to mandate competitor access.
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Read at The Register→
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Should Brussels use emergency powers to force Meta to open WhatsApp data access for AI competitors?
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To manage surging rack densities caused by artificial intelligence workloads, operators are upgrading cooling solutions from simple row-level coolant distribution units to facility-scale platforms offered by DCX, enabling chillerless, warm-water architectures for hyperscale needs.
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Read at Data Center Frontier  →
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“Did an ex-manager pull a really elaborate prank regarding alarm recording.”
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The poster is driven to distraction manually transcribing hundreds of daily BMS alarms into an Excel spreadsheet, suspecting a decade-old policy mandated by a former manager is an absurd, non-standard prank that prevents automation.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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“Windows Server 2025 DCs: Defender not starting, PDQ Inventory scans hanging, Splashtop failing”
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A critical boot-time regression on Windows Server 2025 Domain Controllers causes Microsoft Defender to fail initialization because it starts before the Group Policy hive is ready, a problem exacerbated by Splashtop, leaving servers potentially unprotected.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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Should Microsoft prioritize a hotfix for the Defender/GPO conflict in Windows Server 2025 immediately?
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“Unlabelled SMR hard drives are a cancer”
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A technician recounts a month-long debugging saga involving inconsistent RAID performance, ultimately tracing the issue to secretly installed, unadvertised SMR drives from Seagate that were likely donated by an unaware previous owner.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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