NJ fines AI data center $1.07M, spotlighting how on-site power shifts emissions, noise, and permitting risks into communities – and transparency matters.

AMD to acquire World Labs for $8.2B; Fei-Fei Li to join as EVP. Deal boosts world model R&D, physical AI, and informs AMD’s future chip and systems design.

Supercapacitors help data centers manage AI power spikes with ms response for peak shaving, voltage stabilization, and brief backup – complementing UPS.

Google details grid-interactive AI data centers: LVDC power, BESS, liquid cooling, and a shift from 55 to 800 VDC to boost efficiency.

Infrasound in data centers is often inaudible yet felt. Learn what it is, how to measure it, and practical ways operators can reduce low-frequency impact.

How data centers are shifting from WUE to site-specific water resilience, with cooling tradeoffs, sourcing, policy, and community impacts.

Learn about layered drone defenses for data centers: hardening, detection, operations, redundancy, and location strategy for resilience.

Grid constraints are steering new Dutch data center builds beyond Amsterdam, even as the capital’s interconnection strength sustains demand.

Leaders at AI Infra Summit assess orbital data centers: heat, bandwidth, launch costs, optical links, power beaming, and USAF readiness to adopt.

Zombie workloads waste cloud and GPU resources. How FinOps, Kubernetes for AI, and OpenTelemetry help teams find, fix, and prevent costly idle jobs.

2026 DataX Connect survey: Nearly 40% of data center pros plan to switch jobs despite pay raises; career paths, benefits, and talent shortages drive moves.

Data center cancellations strand investments and trigger restudies. Who pays—developers, utilities, or ratepayers? Cases from Georgia, Virginia, and cloud.

Densifying data centers offers a faster, cost-effective path to capacity than new builds, but demands careful power, cooling, and compliance planning.

Urban data centers offer low latency and dense interconnection in city cores. See use cases, trade-offs, and how to choose between building and colocation.

Data centers host compute; telcos deliver connectivity. Learn how they differ, where they overlap, and why both are essential to digital infrastructure.

Power availability shapes data center site selection as operators prioritize firm capacity, timelines, and on-site generation for faster time to revenue

How long data center GPUs last: physical vs. economic lifespan, upgrade timing, resale/recycling, and GPUaaS to cut costs and e-waste.

How self-improving AI could reshape data centers, from power and cooling to governance, with practical impacts and risks for operators.

Fiber access and diversity can limit where and how fast data centers scale. Here’s how operators can mitigate the risk.

A California judge says Imperial County must review a proposed 330 MW data center and its power, water, battery, and generation infrastructure.

Analysis: Nvidia opens NVLink Fusion to custom XPUs via MediaTek, signaling a shift to heterogeneous AI racks as NVLink competes with UALink and Ethernet.

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) is a growing data center risk. Learn how shielding, filtering, bonding, cabling, and siting choices protect uptime.

A new Executive Order targets foreign grid equipment as utilities and data center developers contend with tight supplies and long lead times.

DOE declined three proposed transmission corridors as its own study cites data center load growth.

Data center buildouts are booming in 2026, but challenges like power, labor, and community concerns demand innovation and collaboration.

Data center development is becoming a campaign liability for politicians who once sold it as an economic development win.

OpenAI is adding an energy-technology role as it expands flexible-load, generation and storage strategies across its growing AI data center portfolio.

The developer says it has 4 GW under lease and 15+ GW of powered land as Nvidia partnership advances its grid-responsive AI data center model.

The developer is betting that an off-grid campus can bypass ERCOT grid queues, but hitting a 2027 launch means securing a customer quickly.

The grid operator calls for faster generation and transmission development and greater Large Load visibility, but major questions remain.

AI infrastructure spending is forecast to push global data center capex beyond $3 trillion by 2030, driven by hyperscalers and AI-specialized clouds.

As AI clusters scale and network silicon becomes the bottleneck, next-generation switching architecture targets latency and multi-site connectivity.

The chipmaker is tying its financial support to long-lived infrastructure and the residual value of the hardware that will operate within it.

The Texas data center moratorium fails to address the rapid emergence of private grids with large gas power plants. New regulatory guardrails are needed for these grids.

August 2026 data center hardware highlights: AI infrastructure shifts to energy, minerals, networking, CPUs, rack-scale systems, and power-ready capacity.

Can home-hosted GPUs support AI? Pilots pay homeowners to host distributed compute; explores speed, reliability, security, and hybrid futures.

The project combines a planned private-generation complex with an AI data center and has drawn national scrutiny over its potential emissions.

Driven by surging investment in AI and cloud infrastructure, Asia-Pacific’s data center pipeline reached a record-breaking 26.5 GW in H1 2026.

Data center land banking reshapes industry growth by securing land for future expansion as demand surges and site selection challenges intensify.

News analysis: Galaxy bets grid-first power wins in AI data centers, testing ERCOT’s Batch Zero as Helios converts approved MW into reliable IT load.

The AI data center boom relies on copper, lithium, and rare earths, but ongoing supply chain pressures are testing whether producers can keep up.

PJM is weighing ride-through rules for data centers after nearly 3,800 MW of Northern Virginia load transferred to onsite generation during the grid event.

AWS cites infrastructure priorities for its Maryland data center rollback, but the decision also highlights the growing influence of community resistance.

SpaceX plans to power its massive Texas chip campus with onsite generation and batteries rather than the grid, according to a signed county agreement.

Analysis: Ofgem’s refundable fee tests data center deliverability, aiming to clear grid queues but risking a two-tier market favoring hyperscalers.

Cloud region migration helps businesses optimize costs, improve latency, and meet compliance needs. Learn how to plan and execute seamless transitions.

Do data centers raise local temperatures? Explore their impact, causes of heat islands, and solutions to minimize environmental effects.

AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng sparred over jobs, regulation, and AI’s future as infrastructure spending continues to surge.

Why hyperscale data center megacampuses are rising: AI demand, power economics, modular design, and how operators plan, build, and run 1 GW campuses.

CoreWeave’s entry into Indonesia signals a strategic shift toward regional AI infrastructure and sovereign compute.