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Eaton, Trane Claim 30% Installation Savings for AI Data Centers
📅 - Trane Technologies and Eaton have developed a joint reference design for AI data centers that combines medium voltage power distribution with thermal management, targeting efficiency gains of up to 15%, installation cost reductions of up to 30%, and copper savings of as much as 80% as operators struggle to deploy increasingly dense computing infrastructure at scale globally.
The percentages will attract attention. The more consequential part is architectural. Trane and Eaton are trying to collapse electrical and cooling decisions into the same design process, rather than allowing separate engineering teams to optimize them independently and reconcile the consequences later. That becomes [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Global Colocation Capacity Seen Tripling to 213GW by 2031 - Structure Research estimates global colocation capacity will more than triple from 63.8GW in 2026 to 213.1GW by 2031, while sector revenue rises from $151.9 billion to $458.7 billion. Its new market ranking also shows a less orderly industry underneath that expansion, as AI demand, hyperscale self-build, power shortages and connectivity increasingly separate scale from maturity across markets.
The projections, contained in Structure Research's 2026 Global Data Centre Colocation & Interconnection Report, suggest an industry adding roughly 149GW of operational critical IT capacity within five years. That is an enormous amount of infrastructure. It also risks obscuring how unevenly the [...]
📅 - Deploying Suricata with DPDK on High-Traffic Servers - Securing a modern, high-throughput data center presents a significant architectural challenge. As network speeds scale to 10Gbps, 40Gbps, and even 100Gbps, traditional Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) become major operational bottlenecks. The core issue lies within the standard Linux kernel network stack, which relies on interrupt-driven processing. Under heavy packet loads, the kernel is simply overwhelmed, resulting in dropped packets and severely throttled bandwidth.
To achieve uncompromised security without sacrificing throughput, iDatam’s latest technical tutorial details how to deploy Suricata utilizing the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) on bare-metal Linux dedicated servers.
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📅 - EcoDataCenter Secures Land for 150MW Swedish Data Center Campus - EcoDataCenter has secured 52 hectares in Smedjebacken for a third Dalarna data center campus, with 150MW of initial power capacity and construction targeted after permits clear in 2027. The Swedish operator is concentrating more infrastructure in one region as AI and hyperscale demand increasingly collide with power, grid, permitting, cooling, and local economic constraints across northern Europe.
The land agreement moves a project discussed since 2019 closer to construction, but it does not remove the harder infrastructure dependencies. Smedjebacken municipal documents show Swedish grid operator Svenska Kraftnät and Vattenfall gave positive indications for 150MW of power, with delivery [...]
📅 - Zscaler Broadens Zero Trust Reach Across US SMBs With Carahsoft - Zscaler and Carahsoft are expanding their partnership to take Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange deeper into the US small and mid-market, using standardized bundles, simpler pricing and Carahsoft's reseller network. The move targets companies facing enterprise-class cyber threats without enterprise-class security teams, while testing whether cloud-delivered zero trust can be packaged economically for smaller organizations at scale nationwide.
The target is familiar. The delivery model is the more interesting part. Smaller organizations increasingly rely on SaaS applications, cloud connectivity and distributed workforces, yet many cannot maintain the security staff, procurement machinery or [...]
📅 - AWS Adds 2M NVIDIA GPUs as AI Data Center Demand Accelerates - NVIDIA's latest earnings and AWS's plan to deploy two million additional GPUs sharpen the infrastructure story for hosting providers, data center operators and cloud buyers. Demand is still surging, but the next bottlenecks are less about chips alone and more about power, cooling, networking, land, capital intensity and whether hyperscalers can keep expensive AI capacity economically utilized.
NVIDIA reported second-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, with Data Center revenue reaching $89 billion. That was 117% higher than a year earlier. The company expects third-quarter revenue of roughly $108 billion, excluding Data Center compute revenue from [...]
📅 - Anthropic Locks In $45B of Nscale AI Cloud Capacity - Anthropic has agreed to spend $45 billion leasing AI compute from British infrastructure provider Nscale, tying roughly 460 megawatts of future capacity in West Virginia to NVIDIA's Vera Rubin systems. The six-year commitment, expected to begin delivering capacity in late 2027, underscores how access to power and accelerators is becoming a strategic constraint for frontier AI companies.
The scale is notable even by current AI infrastructure standards. Spread evenly across six years, Anthropic would be committing roughly $7.5 billion annually for access to computing capacity it will not own. Nscale retains the campus, hardware and associated infrastructure assets. Anthropic buys [...]
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