The latest data from the EU's EED reveals ongoing issues in both the quality of the data and the lack of coverage, limiting its use as an accurate benchmark of the sector's efficiency performance.
Analysis of the latest giant data center proposals from the first half of 2026 offers some useful indications of how the giant build-out is progressing.
Giant data center power capacity and investment are at unprecedented levels, with power proposed in the first half of 2026 tracking at 2025 levels.
AI data center projects often run into delays when developers encounter unfamiliar technologies and unexpected technical challenges. Taking a structured, methodical approach can help keep projects on track.
Meta's decision to give away its latest large language model challenges the narrative around AI infrastructure.
On average, cloud provider outages affected application availability less in 2025 than in 2024. Yet risk remains: an unfortunate choice of zone or region can subject even well-planned applications to hours of disruption.
Access to the latest hardware and rapid speed of deployment make public cloud attractive; yet today most training workloads run on-premises.
AI data centers are racing ahead, but the grid isn't keeping up: operators need to rethink how they connect to, generate and manage energy to unlock expansion without overwhelming already strained generation and transmission systems.
When choosing whether to develop a brand new LLM or fine-tune an existing one, the second option often makes more sense. It can be more cost-effective and requires fewer IT and facility resources.
Increasing community opposition to data center development is compelling hyperscalers to rethink their decades-old practices.
Enterprises deploying AI inference need to choose carefully to limit costs and protect their data.
Concerns over rising electricity costs and environmental impact are driving local opposition to new data center projects in the US, prompting a growing number of cancellations.
Elon Musk's merger of his SpaceX aerospace company with his AI firm xAI has relit the thrusters under the concept of building big data centers in space. However, the technical difficulties involved may ultimately thwart his ambitions.
Simple arithmetic shows that newly constructed, large-scale private data centers with high occupancy rates can sometimes undercut colos on unit costs, but in most cases colos remain significantly cheaper.
Nvidia's DGX-Ready certification for colocation facilities has been around for nearly six years, yet what the program actually entails remains obscure.
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