Reading and sharing information about datacenters, DC construction, news, and developments mainly in the United States.
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Well folks, back from hiatus... spent the last 10 years deep in the MMR, realized X is still a thing & I want to participate. Look for more from @datacenters in the coming days/weeks!
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Azure Managed Identity outage (East/West US) ran ~6h and cascaded into AKS/Databricks/Synapse/etc. Cloud reliability is dependency management: one identity/token-plane wobble = broad blast radius.
theregister.com/2026/02/03/a…
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Microsoft 365’s Jan 22–23 outage (MO1221364) is a good continuity reminder: you don’t just need redundancy—you need clear admin visibility fast comms when control planes wobble.
Status thread: x.com/MSFT365Status/status/2…
We're investigating a potential issue impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview. Further information can be found in the admin center under MO1221364.
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Infra detail I love: NVIDIA says Vera Rubin NVL72 compute trays are modular cable-free w/ quick-disconnects; service time cut up to 18× (1.5h → ~5 min). Ops design is becoming the differentiator at rack scale.
developer.nvidia.com/blog/in…
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Verizon says Jan 14’s major network outage was a software issue (not cyber). ~2.3M user reports in a day is a reminder: control-plane bugs can look like attacks from the outside.
verizon.com/about/news/updat…
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Europe’s data center buildout is colliding with the grid: new connections can take years. For AI, capex is the easy part — deliverable MW interconnect queues are the constraint.
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429MW of gas turbines earmarked for a US plant intended to serve data centers is a reminder: generation interconnect timelines are becoming the bottleneck, not racks.
datacenterdynamics.com/en/ne…
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Data center load is forcing a rethink of grid flexibility. Partnerships that turn demand response / virtual power plants into a real tool will matter as AI-driven MW ramps.
datacenterdynamics.com/en/ne…
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DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit. The sleeper constraint is the memory stack (capacity/bandwidth/cost) shifting the true cost of “more GPUs”. go.theregister.com/feed/www.…
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Oracle’s AI infra push is turning into a power capex story, not just a ‘cloud’ story. Constraints are increasingly deliverable MW, cooling, and deployment lead times. datacenterknowledge.com/infr…
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SpaceX reportedly filed for a “million satellite” orbital AI data center megaconstellation. If even a fraction becomes real, it’s a wild signal of where compute power constraints are pushing architecture discussions.
Source: datacenterdynamics.com/en/ne…
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10 Dec 2016
Currently reading: The M&A battle for Cybersecurity #datacenter #security #infosec #infowars hampletonpartners.com/cybers…
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18 Mar 2016
Tranquil Hosting adds Hong Kong #datacenter @tqhosting goo.gl/mbxHLd #HK #HongKong #Datacenter #Data #Hosting #cloud
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14 Apr 2015
1547 Critical Systems Realty and The Martin Group Launch “Zero to 100” Rapid Datacenter Development Plan: Comp... bit.ly/1NE1D1N
13 Apr 2015
Applied Optoelectronics Announces Preliminary First Quarter 2015 Revenue: SUGAR LAND, Texas -- Applied Optoele... yhoo.it/1aKYhrU
13 Apr 2015
The Opportunity for Local Datacenters in India: Last year, two big announcements showed the world why India is... bit.ly/1CAhrrN
11 Apr 2015
Fujitsu Offers Datacenter Management Solution for Support over the Lifecycle of Customer Datacenters: Fujitsu ... yhoo.it/1CCtT9n