Urban Data Centers: When Downtown Beats the Suburbs
City-center facilities trade hyperscale capacity for proximity, offering low latency and dense interconnection for metro workloads that can't afford the round trip to a suburban campus.
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Why AI Data Centers Can’t Afford to Ignore Property Tax
Property tax is often treated as a once-a-year accounting formality, but for AI data centers it is a major cost that should be managed from design through operation.
DOE Passes on Three Transmission Corridors Even as It Warns of Data Center Demand Growth
The Department of Energy declined to designate three proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors, even though its own draft study flags data centers as a major driver of future transmission needs, reviving debate over building grid capacity ahead of demand.
DOE Extends Eddystone Coal Plant’s Life as PJM Grid Strains Under Data Center Load
The Department of Energy has ordered a Pennsylvania coal plant to stay available through November as PJM grapples with surging data center demand and a wave of generator retirements.
Global Data Center Capex Forecast to Top $3 Trillion by 2030 on AI Buildout
Dell'Oro Group says AI infrastructure spending will nearly double its earlier 2030 projection, with accelerators, power constraints, and cooling upgrades reshaping how operators plan capacity.
AI Data Centers Push Ethernet Switching to 102.4 Tbps as GPU Clusters Scale
Cisco, Broadcom, and Nvidia are racing to ship high-buffer, high-bandwidth switching silicon that keeps GPU clusters from becoming expensive, underutilized hardware. Hyperscalers are expected to adopt first, with enterprise trickle-down to follow.
Can Home GPU Rigs Take Pressure Off Mega Data Centers?
As community opposition to large AI data centers intensifies, startups and pilot projects are testing whether paying homeowners to host GPU appliances can supplement centralized computing capacity.
VMware’s Broadcom Fallout Is a Warning About Platform Lock-In
Rising costs and shrinking support at VMware since the Broadcom acquisition are pushing IT leaders to rethink single-platform dependency, with workload-by-workload evaluation emerging as the smarter path forward.
Land Banking: Data Center Operators Stockpile Sites Years Before Building
As AI-driven demand strains available sites, data center companies and investors are buying up undeveloped land years ahead of construction, a shift from the industry's traditional just-in-time real estate approach.
Cloudflare Data Shows Internet Traffic Dipped Sharply During August Solar Eclipse
Cloudflare Radar measured HTTP traffic across Europe during the August 12 total solar eclipse, finding that regions along the path of totality saw the steepest drops as people looked up instead of at their screens.