Utilities and States Move to Rein In Speculative Data Center Projects
Public opposition and new utility vetting rules are slowing a growing share of proposed AI data centers, even as hyperscaler spending keeps climbing.
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Data Centers Face Growing Scrutiny Over Low-Frequency Noise
Infrasound from cooling towers, generators, and fans is becoming a flashpoint in community pushback against data center projects, and operators have practical, low-cost ways to address it.
Centralized, Distributed, or Edge AI: Choosing the Right Architecture for Your Site
AI infrastructure terminology can blur together, but the choice between centralized, distributed, and edge deployment comes down to latency, cost, and compliance needs.
Data Centers Face Rising Drone Threats, Industry Pushes Layered Defenses
After spring 2026 drone strikes disrupted AWS facilities in the Persian Gulf, security experts say operators should focus on hardening, redundancy, and regulatory coordination rather than trying to stop every drone.
AI Datacenter Boom Could Produce E-Waste Equal to 6 Trips Around Earth
A new report from the Basel Action Network warns that estimates of AI-related electronic waste have vastly understated the problem by focusing only on GPUs, ignoring the power, cooling, and networking hardware that will also need replacing.
Space Data Centers: Real Interest, But Launch Costs and Cooling Remain Big Obstacles
At the AI Infra Summit, executives from Viasat, Cowboy Space, and Star Catcher, along with the US Air Force CIO, laid out why orbital data centers are gaining momentum but still face steep thermal, bandwidth, and cost hurdles.
Rack Power Density Is Doubling Fast, and Data Centers Need to Catch Up
Average rack power draw jumped from 12 kW to 26 kW in just two years as AI workloads push facilities toward new limits on power delivery, cooling, and structural design.
Zombie Workloads Are Quietly Draining Data Center Budgets and Power
Abandoned cloud instances, orphaned volumes, and idle GPU jobs are costing companies more than ever, and the rise of AI workloads is making them harder to find and kill.
Cloudflare Lets Site Owners Block AI Training Without Losing Search Visibility
A new Disallow AI Training setting from Cloudflare separates search indexing from AI training for mixed-use crawlers, with Apple, Google, and Microsoft already signed on as "Accountable" operators.
Speed to Power Reshapes AI Data Center Site Selection
For AI infrastructure builders, the megawatts that matter are the ones delivered on schedule, not the ones promised years out. That shift is changing where data centers get sited and how developers plan power.