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Urban Data Centers: Who Needs Them and Where to Find Them
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (657+ words) Urban data centers deliver low-latency performance and rich interconnection for metro workloads. Learn when they make sense, key trade-offs, and how to find the right provider. Most data centers are large, standalone buildings surrounded by open space. But there’s another…...
Property Tax: The Value Driver that AI Data Centers Overlook
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (264+ words) Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Property tax is a major, often-overlooked cost in AI data center ownership that should be strategically managed from design through operation, not treated as a yearly accounting task....
Data Centers vs. Telcos: Different Roles, Shared Dependence
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (347+ words) Data centers provide the environments where compute runs; telcos deliver the networks that connect them. Here’s how the two ecosystems diverge and overlap. A data center is a facility purpose-built to house IT equipment. Facilities range from hyperscale campuses with…...
Could Fiber Be the Next Big Bottleneck in Data Center Growth?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (513+ words) Power and water aren’t the only constraints on new builds. In many markets, fiber access and diversity now determine where facilities can be located and how quickly they can scale. It’s no secret that water and power availability can limit…...
Nvidia, MediaTek Bring Custom Chips to AI Racks
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (811+ words) Nvidia is opening its rack-scale AI systems to custom chips, giving hyperscalers more flexibility as they seek alternatives to off-the-shelf GPUs. Nvidia is opening its rack-scale AI infrastructure to custom accelerators from hyperscalers and other AI developers, expanding its NVLink…...
Data Center Construction: Demand, Friction, and Discipline
2+ week, 6+ day ago (452+ words) Data center buildouts are booming in 2026, but challenges like power, labor, and community concerns demand innovation and collaboration. Data center construction remains the defining infrastructure story of 2026. In a broader construction market showing signs of softness, digital infrastructure is a…...
EdgeCore Says Data Centers Should Pay Their Own Power Costs
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1193+ words) The developer-operator says it will fund the power infrastructure its campuses need, but the definition of “full cost” depends on how utilities allocate broader grid investments. EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure says it will fund the generation, transmission and delivery infrastructure its…...
PJM 5-Year Strategy Wrestles With Data Center Boom
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1387+ words) The grid operator calls for faster generation and transmission development and greater Large Load visibility, but major questions remain. PJM Interconnection envisions a power system in which data centers drive most new electricity demand, but its five-year strategy begs a…...
Data Center Hardware Highlights: August 2026
3+ week, 6+ day ago (506+ words) The latest in data center infrastructure – from power and minerals to networking, CPUs, and rack-scale AI systems – shows the stack shifting toward energy, interconnects, and end-to-end efficiency. Data Center Knowledge’s latest hardware coverage points to a system-level rethink of AI…...