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Aug, 2026 : US Widens Lead in Global Hyperscale Data Center Capacity
📅 - Hyperscale computing is becoming more geographically concentrated, even as AI infrastructure demand spreads globally. New Synergy Research Group data shows 20 state or metro markets now host 60% of worldwide hyperscale capacity, with Northern Virginia and Greater Beijing alone holding 17%, underscoring how power, permitting, cloud economics and operator concentration are reshaping where large scale computing gets built.
For infrastructure buyers, the concentration is difficult to dismiss as a simple map of existing cloud demand. It is increasingly a map of where power can still be secured, projects can still be permitted, and operators can build at a scale that works economically. The [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Pouyan IT launches colocation services in Iran and the Netherlands - Pouyan IT, an Iranian hosting and cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2016 and based in Hamadan, has expanded its infrastructure line-up with a colocation service offered from two locations: Iran and the Netherlands.The service lets businesses place their own server hardware in standards-compliant, physically secured datacenters and hand day-to-day facility operations to Pouyan IT. Customers receive stable and redundant power, a high-speed network uplink, physical site security, continuous monitoring and access to the company's technical support team. Capacity is available from a single rack unit up to a full rack, so the service suits both a single appliance and a complete pl
📅 - AI Data Center Growth Is Driving Up Skilled Labor Costs Fast - U.S. data center operators are paying more and waiting longer for the engineers, technicians, and commissioning specialists needed to bring AI infrastructure online, according to new 2026 compensation data published by Kelly Services. Hiring pressure is now spreading from established hubs into emerging markets, turning workforce availability into a project risk alongside power, equipment lead times, permitting, and construction capacity nationally.
The immediate problem is concentrated in jobs that sit close to energization and go-live, according to the recruitment company's report titled Data Center Salary Guide 2026. Medium-voltage electrical specialists, commissioning engineers, [...]
📅 - Emerald AI Lands $150M to Scale Grid-Flexible Data Centers - Emerald AI has raised $150 million at a $1.05 billion valuation as it moves from grid-flexibility demonstrations into commercial data center deployments. The company says its software can reduce or reshape multi-megawatt power demand without disrupting critical AI workloads, a claim aimed squarely at the emerging collision between AI infrastructure growth and constrained electricity grids across markets.
The financing is an unusually large Series A, co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC, with participation from a long list of strategic investors spanning technology, utilities, industrials, energy companies, and venture funds. Twelve Fortune Global 500 companies are now investors, according [...]
📅 - Digital Realty Gets 50MW Slot in Constrained Singapore Market - Digital Realty has secured a provisional 50 megawatt allocation for a fourth Singapore data center, giving the infrastructure landlord scarce expansion capacity in one of Asia's most constrained digital markets. The Jurong Island project comes with unusually explicit energy and efficiency conditions, turning access to power into both a commercial advantage and an execution risk for operators.
The award is one quarter of 200 MW granted by Singapore to four incumbent operators after a competitive process that drew more than 20 proposals. Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres received the other 50 MW allocations. For buyers, the immediate takeaway is not simply [...]
📅 - Equinix Expands Security Portfolio With Netskope Zero Trust - Equinix has added Netskope Private Access to its Network Edge marketplace, letting enterprises deploy the zero trust access service as a virtual network function close to existing interconnection points. The integration targets companies trying to reduce VPN appliances and traffic detours, although it also gives network teams another software dependency to operate across complicated hybrid infrastructure estates.
The service was made generally available with Equinix Network Edge release 2026.7 on July 15, although Equinix highlighted the availability again in an August 19 community update. Netskope Private Access can now be deployed alongside other virtual routers, firewalls and network [...]
📅 - AI Security Spending to Grow 69% to $4.8B in 2027, Says Gartner - Gartner expects spending on products designed specifically to secure artificial intelligence systems to reach $4.8 billion in 2027, up 68.7% from 2026. The forecast reflects a fast-forming security category around AI applications, usage controls, governance platforms and gateways, as enterprises confront prompt injection, access weaknesses, supply chain exposure and increasingly autonomous software inside production environments at scale.
The number itself is striking, but the more useful signal is how quickly AI security is becoming a budget category separate from conventional cybersecurity. Gartner estimates spending at $2.835 billion in 2026, representing 83% growth, before another [...]
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