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Over $100 billion in investment is driving a significant expansion of artificial intelligence and data center infrastructure across the Middle East and Africa region, fueled by the convergence of power availability, governmental policy, and sovereign capital deployment during the second half of 2025.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Should governments heavily subsidize the $100B+ data center buildout in the Middle East and Africa?
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Microsoft is proceeding with a $400 million investment to construct a new data center facility within the rapidly expanding San Antonio metropolitan area.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Nostrum Data Centers engaged JLL for expertise to advance its development plans, positioning Spain as an increasingly vital hub for digital connectivity.
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Read at Data Center POST→
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President Trump indicated that technology giants, with support from companies like Microsoft, must finance necessary power grid upgrades for expanding datacenters rather than shifting the financial burden onto households.
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Read at The Register→
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Former President Donald Trump has warned major technology companies, including Microsoft, against passing the increasing operational costs of powering artificial intelligence data centers onto American consumers.
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Read at TechRepublic→
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New York state is introducing measures to increase the cost burden for data centers to mitigate rising residential electricity expenses, seeking a balance between affordability and economic expansion.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Should New York increase power costs for data centers to subsidize residential electricity expenses?
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The upcoming 2026 legislative session in Colorado will feature significant discussions concerning housing, energy infrastructure, and data center regulation.
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Read at Bisnow→
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As data center density continues to increase and capacity pipelines are fully committed, the competitive differentiator in the colocation market by 2026 will shift to ensuring the certainty and speed of power provisioning.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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To ensure operational continuity, organizations must develop effective strategies for mitigating potential data center outage risks and preparing contingencies for unforeseen events through 2026.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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The Trump administration is implementing export rules that prioritize domestic access, stipulating that sales of high-performance GPUs from companies like Nvidia and AMD to Chinese buyers will only be permitted if local demand is fully satisfied.
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Read at The Register→
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The US House of Representatives advanced legislation aimed at closing a loophole that allows Chinese entities to rent access to export-controlled high-performance GPUs via cloud services, bringing remote hardware access under existing export control laws.
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Read at The Register→
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Should Congress close the loophole preventing Chinese entities from renting high-end US GPUs via the cloud?
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Despite political opposition from the Trump administration towards renewable sources, analysts suggest solar power will remain an attractive energy option for datacenters due to its inherently low cost.
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Read at The Register→
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Patmos secured a $100 million clean energy loan to advance a distinctive downtown retrofit project in Kansas City, which will integrate colocation space directly into the city center.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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“Stonewalled by Citrix's new AI "Customer Service" model”
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A frantic infrastructure manager details the Kafkaesque nightmare of having critical services shut down due to a licensing mismatch that only a human could resolve, yet being trapped in an automated support loop that denies access based on the very problem needing resolution.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Is it just me, or are we spending more time reverse-engineering how our own systems work than securing them?”
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The author laments that the modern infrastructure landscape, characterized by undocumented data flows and forgotten SaaS integrations, demands more effort in system archaeology than proactive defense.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Realistically what am I worth salary wise or hourly wise”
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A recently transitioned US Marine veteran, who rapidly advanced from network support to a NOC/Data Center Technician role, including managing a major outage response, seeks validation on his $63k salary and advice on the next career step given his current certifications and ongoing cybersecurity studies.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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