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Zoning regulations have become the primary bottleneck restricting capital deployment and driving soaring land prices within United States data center development, leading to compressed internal rates of return and delayed projects.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Datacenter development strategies diverge based on operator type, with colocation providers favoring dense urban locations while hyperscalers prioritize remote sites offering lower costs for power, land, and construction.
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Read at The Register→
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Carrier-neutral colocation facilities offer organizations the advantage of hosting infrastructure in shared environments while providing access to diverse and flexible connectivity arrangements, according to Mike Hoy, CTO at Pulsant.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Do the connectivity benefits of carrier-neutral sites outweigh potential contract inflexibility?
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This guide aims to clarify the specific responsibilities and services provided by colocation partners versus those retained by the customer to prevent deployment gaps and ensure informed hosting decisions, as detailed by Mike Hoy, CTO at Pulsant.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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JLL's 2026 Global Data Center Outlook forecasts a massive $3 trillion infrastructure supercycle fueled by artificial intelligence and cloud expansion, predicting that capacity will double by 2030 despite significant global energy constraints.
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Read at Data Center Frontier  →
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The market for data center asset-backed securities in Europe is projected to expand significantly in 2026, largely fueled by intense demand driven by artificial intelligence requirements and anticipated securitizations valued between €3 and €5 billion.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Capital flows, energy limitations, and fundamental structural changes are redefining the scale of artificial intelligence and data center infrastructure across North America, currently estimated at a six hundred billion dollar corridor buildout.
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Read at Global Data Center Hub→
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Due to ongoing geopolitical trade tensions, Nvidia may require prepayment for orders of its H200 GPUs destined for China, with sales potentially beginning this quarter for select approved customers.
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Read at The Register→
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Is demanding upfront payment for H200 GPUs to China a necessary response to geopolitical risk?
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Chinese regulatory bodies have indicated they will likely review Meta's proposed acquisition of the China-based artificial intelligence platform Manus, adding to a day of various international technology business developments.
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Read at The Register→
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US trade policy aimed at restricting China's access to advanced semiconductor technology over the past five years has inadvertently spurred the development of potent homegrown alternatives within China.
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Read at The Register→
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Data center operational resilience
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While certain regulatory aspects such as permitting and procurement have shown improvement in some locations, maintaining compliant, transparent, and resilient data center operations is becoming increasingly difficult heading into 2026.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Failures observed throughout 2025, stemming from mechanical issues to hyperscale cloud events, demonstrated the cascading risks associated with artificial intelligence workloads, underscoring the critical need for robust physical resilience and clean recovery processes.
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Read at Data Center Frontier →
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“Microsoft Support, and the ridiculous way I hacked my way into my own tenant”
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After accidentally locking out the administrative team by enabling restrictive Conditional Access Policies, the poster bypassed the lockout by creating and running a Power Automate flow to modify the exclusion group, all while Microsoft support failed to call back for days.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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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 fixing this boot-time Defender regression before the general 2025 release?
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“Looking for some career advice from you guys”
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A 24-year-old creative professional in Argentina, disillusioned with filmmaking, seeks earnest advice on pivoting to a Data Center Technician role, despite lacking formal IT qualifications and fearing sunk cost fallacy.
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Read at r/datacenter→
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