Analytics Insight, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Top 100 Global Data Centre Companies in 2026
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The Next Platform, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Three Physical Walls Are Hitting AI Datacenter Infrastructure at the Same Time, and the Compound Effects Are Worse
Rising chip power is breaking cooling, power delivery and interconnect at once; xFusion argues they must be co-optimized. Partner content.
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TechTarget, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
How AI Detects Security Threats in Data Centers
How AI threat detection in data centers works: unified telemetry plus supervised, unsupervised and sequence models, and what to ask vendors.
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Data Center Knowledge, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Can Evaporative Cooling in Data Centers Still Make Sense?
Evaporative cooling uses a lot of water, but lower upfront cost and better efficiency keep it in use, especially in dry climates.
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Data Center Frontier, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Big Tech's Next Nuclear Bet: More Power From Reactors Already Running
Google, Amazon and Meta are funding uprates at existing nuclear plants, adding capacity without building new reactors.
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TechTarget, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
AI Inference Is Changing Data Center Design Requirements
Inference workloads differ from training in hardware, latency, location and rack density, so facility design and capacity plans must adapt.
more → Developer Tech, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
Observability Budgets Rise as AI Adds Systems and Cost Pressure
A Grafana Labs/ETR survey finds most firms spent more on observability as AI adds systems to watch, and favor consolidation.
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Data Center Knowledge, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
Data Centers Can Delay, Not Dodge, the Power Crunch
Infosys analysis: efficiency and flexible AI workloads buy near-term capacity but will not remove the need for new grid infrastructure.
more → Data Center Knowledge, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
New PCE Metric Could Recover Stranded Data Center Power
Power compute effectiveness (PCE) measures how much provisioned power actually reaches compute, a complement to PUE.
more → Petri, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
Microsoft Previews OneDrive Sync Client Command-Line Tool for IT Admins
Microsoft's preview odsync CLI reports OneDrive sync health, policies and compliance per device, with JSON output for automation.
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Data Center Frontier, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
AI's GPU Refresh Cycle Is Becoming a Stranded-Capital Problem
Fast GPU refresh cycles make lifecycle planning for redeployment, resale and recovery a capital and facilities issue.
more → Network World, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
AI Agents Drive Up Telemetry Costs, Complicate Network Observability
Splunk survey: 57% of organizations spend more on observability than on the infrastructure being monitored, and AI agents add more data.
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Petri, Monday, October 19th, 2026
Microsoft Issues Mitigation for Exchange Server Issues Caused by October Windows Updates
October Windows Server updates destabilized on-premises Exchange, and Microsoft offers a registry fix that raises Endpoint Mapper limits.
more → Dell'Oro Group, Monday, October 19th, 2026
Inside OCP Global Summit 2026: Cold Plates, 800 Vdc Sidecars, and a Buildout at Full Steam
Dell'Oro's OCP recap: optics moving into compute, cold plates eclipsing CDUs, 800 Vdc sidecars and a path to 1MW racks.
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Analytics Insight, Friday, October 16th, 2026
Why Secure IT Asset Disposition Is Essential for Enterprise Data Security
Retired laptops, servers and drives remain a breach risk until data-bearing parts are sanitized under a documented chain of custody.
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The Register, Friday, October 16th, 2026
Networking Problems After the October 2026 Windows Update? NTLM Might Be to Blame
October's Windows update now blocks NTLMv1-derived credentials by default, which can break Wi-Fi, Ethernet and VPN logons.
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Data Center Knowledge, Friday, October 16th, 2026
Could the Societal Value of Workloads Shape Data Center Policy?
Policymakers may start asking whether the services data centers run justify their power, water and grid costs.
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Data Center Knowledge, Thursday, October 15th, 2026
Reliability Standards for AI Data Centers, Crypto Miners Move Closer to Adoption
NERC stakeholders approved reliability standards for computational loads of 50 MW or more on 100 kV or higher lines.
more → Data Center Knowledge, Thursday, October 15th, 2026
Data Center Developers Face Tighter Margins as Construction Costs Rise
JLL says 3% to 6% annual construction inflation is the new baseline, squeezing projects without power or anchor tenants.
more → Data Center Knowledge, Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
Why AI Data Center Cooling Needs to Get Smarter
Smarter sensing, motor control, efficient power devices and edge AI let liquid cooling respond in real time to AI rack loads.
more → TechTarget, Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
How to Gain Value From Underutilized Data Center Capacity
Recovering idle data center capacity starts with understanding why it is unused: overprovisioning, misallocation or constraints.
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Data Center Knowledge, Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
AI Data Center Land Buying Hits $6B as Power Premiums Rise
US data center land purchases reached about $6B in 1H 2026, up 79%, as power access drives land value.
more → TechTarget, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Reevaluating the Data Center Workforce
AI-era data centers need electricians, HVAC and construction skills, so IT and facilities must jointly close workforce gaps.
more → Data Center Knowledge, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
How to Secure Data Centers During the Construction Phase
Layered site and supply chain controls protect data centers from theft, sabotage, counterfeit gear and planted devices during the build.
more → Linuxiac, Saturday, October 10th, 2026
Let's Encrypt to Cut SSL Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days in February 2027
Let's Encrypt will move default certificates from 90 to 64 days on Feb. 10, 2027, so admins should check renewals.
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ITPro, Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
The Havoc of Modern Refresh Cycles: Why the Enterprise Is All Over the Place on Revitalizing Hardware
Memory shortages, AI PCs and Windows changes have broken the predictable three-to-four-year hardware refresh cycle.
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Professional Security, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
When a Patch Can't Wait
As AI finds vulnerabilities faster, organizations need a plan for urgent out-of-cycle patching, says Toro Solutions' Katie Barnett.
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Data Center Knowledge, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
The UPS Is Uninterruptible by Design. Its Future Is Not.
Rack batteries, BESS and solid-state transformers are reshaping data center power, raising doubts about where the UPS still belongs.
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IT Pro, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
Enterprises Aren't Quite Sold on Autonomous IT Operations
Riverbed survey: 90% want agentic AI to run IT operations within two years, but 77% won't let AI decide without human approval.
more → InfoQ, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
Building Resilient Platforms: Insights From 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure
American Express infrastructure head Matthew Liste shares 12 principles for building scalable, reliable enterprise platforms.
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Data Center Knowledge, Monday, October 5th, 2026
Vertical Data Centers Face Cost-Proximity Trade-Offs
A proposed 20-story Kansas City data center tests whether urban proximity justifies higher build costs.
more → Computer Weekly, Monday, October 5th, 2026
It's Time to Rethink What We Mean by a Legacy Datacentre
Older datacentres aren't necessarily obsolete; many can be upgraded for AI and higher densities rather than replaced.
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Data Center Knowledge, Monday, October 5th, 2026
Beyond the Megawatt: Why Data Center Site Selection Is Now a Three-Front Battle
New state rules mean data center projects now must handle grid cost, water use and community benefit, not just power.
more → Data Center Knowledge, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
From Opposition to Buy-In: Tactics for Data Center Developers
Facing growing community pushback, data center developers are leaning on transparency, grid funding and local benefits.
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Data Center Knowledge, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Five Ways to Assess Your AI Infrastructure Readiness
A five-part framework for checking AI readiness across performance, power and cooling, security, cost strategy and scalability.
more → InfoQ, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
High Availability Is Not Resilience: Why Cloud Systems Fail When It Matters Most
Multi-region architectures can still fail through shared control-plane dependencies, so resilience must be tested, not assumed.
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Data Center Knowledge, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
The Hidden Failure Domain in N+1 Data Center Cooling
Redundant cooling equipment can still fail together when pumps and CRAHs share a single controller, network path or sensor.
more → Cybersecurity Dive, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
SOC Staffers Generally Pleased With AI's Impact, but Worries Remain
A survey of 500 SOC workers finds AI boosts job satisfaction and skills, though many fear fewer entry-level roles and over-reliance.
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CDOTrends, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
When Production AI Fails Silently: An Engineering Playbook for Building Reliable AI Systems
A playbook explains how production AI degrades without visible errors and what evaluation, observability and governance practices catch it.
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Data Center Knowledge, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Data Center On-Site Power Brings Pollution Risks Closer to Home
A $1.07M New Jersey penalty over unpermitted gas generators shows the environmental compliance risks of on-site data center power.
more → Data Center Knowledge, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Can Supercapacitors Smooth AI's Power Swings?
Supercapacitors can absorb millisecond AI load spikes, but experts see them complementing rather than replacing UPS systems and batteries.
more → Blocks & Files, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Gartner Rates Storage and Compute-as-a-Service Infrastructure Vendors
Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant ranks Everpure, HPE, and Huawei as leaders in consumption-based infrastructure services.
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AIwire, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
What's Hot in AI Infra Now: Power and Cooling
The recent AI Infra Summit had a lot of great presentations on innovations happening at the chip, memory, system, network, and storage levels. But there’s also quite a bit happening further down the five-layer cake, in the underlying power and cooling that’s needed to make the racks of AI infrastructure work.
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InformationWeek, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
The CIO's Maintenance Backlog Is Now a Business Risk
Deferred IT maintenance has become a compounding business risk that AI adoption accelerates rather than solves.
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TechTarget, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Top 8 Customer Support Knowledge Base Software Platforms
TechTarget reviews eight customer support knowledge base platforms, from Document360 to Zoho Desk, with pricing and features.
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IEEE Spectrum, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid-Cooled AI Servers
As AI racks exceed 250kW, near-total liquid heat capture is turning fanless server cooling from niche to standard.
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The Register, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Your Cloud Survived Everything Except the Real World
Rupert Goodwins argues cloud resilience fails against real-world threats like war, weak backups, and an AI-driven storage crunch.
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The Register, Sunday, September 20th, 2026
How Windows Turned Months of Inactivity Into a 7-Hour Update Hostage Situation
A Register columnist recounts a seven-hour Windows 11 update ordeal after months of laptop inactivity.
more → The Register, Saturday, September 19th, 2026
AI Boom Could Leave an E-Waste Trail That Wraps 6 Times Around Earth
A Basel Action Network report warns AI infrastructure could generate 395-617 million tonnes of e-waste by 2050.
more → DatacenterDynamics, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Enabling the Next Generation of AI Data Centers
AI data centers need an integrated approach across power, cooling, permitting, and long-term operations.
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