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- Google explores data center site in Roanoke County, VirginiaDatacenterDynamics · 19 Oct 2026
Evaluates the Wood Haven Technology Park as a site for project
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 2026)AWS News Blog · 19 Oct 2026
Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda…
- Sponsored: Data center siting in the AI era: A smarter approach to environmental and community impactDatacenterDynamics · 19 Oct 2026
Why smart siting matters for AI-driven data center growth
- ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup service after attackers abuse its Microsoft 365 accessHelp Net Security · 19 Oct 2026
American software company ConnectWise is contending with a security incident that has allowed unknown attackers to use its application identities to break into organizations’ Microsoft 365 accounts. The intruders used…
- Sweet Security adds one-click protection for vulnerable cloud workloadsHelp Net Security · 19 Oct 2026
Sweet Security has announced the release of Virtual Patching, a new capability that protects running cloud and AI applications from specific vulnerabilities the moment they are identified. Security teams can…
- Curtis Hall proposes temporary 49.9MW gas power plant for Cardiff data center campus – reportDatacenterDynamics · 19 Oct 2026
Capacity just under the threshold required for Welsh gov't approval
- Valor Energy acquires computing site in Youngstown, OhioDatacenterDynamics · 19 Oct 2026
Company looks to pivot 18MW site into an AI data center
- Carrier Connect secures customer for 4MW data center outside Atlanta, GeorgiaDatacenterDynamics · 19 Oct 2026
Company signs lease for entire facility just days after taking over the site
- Alcoa sells New York aluminum smelter to data center developer for $315 millionDatacenterDynamics · 19 Oct 2026
Company doesn’t name buyer, but signs point to cryptominer NYDIG
- Israel to cap capacity of new data centers at 200MW – reportDatacenterDynamics · 19 Oct 2026
New rules come as country faces unprecedented data center demand
- Microsoft pulls out of delayed Nscale data center in Loughton, EssexDatacenterDynamics · 19 Oct 2026
Would have been Nscale's anchor tenant at the site
- GreenSquare launches first phase of data center campus in Sydney, AustraliaDatacenterDynamics · 19 Oct 2026
Neocloud Sharon AI taking capacity at former IBM site
- RPO and RTO explained with a real disaster recovery exampleHelp Net Security · 19 Oct 2026
In this Help Net Security video, Matthew Burden, CEO of BlackBox Hosting, explains RPO and RTO and how they differ in practice. RPO, the recovery point objective, is the most…
- The end of independent infrastructure roadmaps: how AI is forcing data center co-designDatacenterDynamics · 18 Oct 2026
Idle accelerators represent stranded capital, wasted energy, and lower returns on some of the most expensive infrastructure investments in the data center
- Week in review: Hidden implant in Ledger wallets linked to $93M theft, 1,500+ npm packages exposedHelp Net Security · 18 Oct 2026
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Strands Box: Open-source sandbox for AI agents AWS released Strands Box, an open source sandbox…
- Sponsored: The hidden costs: Why data center sustainability fails without operational disciplineDatacenterDynamics · 17 Oct 2026
How prioritizing the small things with sustained investment and follow-through can help to pave the way to achieving true data center sustainability goals
- Plans for data center in Moncalieri, Italy, put on hold by town mayorDatacenterDynamics · 17 Oct 2026
Before its application was halted, the project was billed as Italy’s ‘largest’ data center
- [Industry Event] Advancing Data Center Construction East 2026Data Center Knowledge · 16 Oct 2026
- Closing the Skills Gap in Data Center Facilities ManagementData Center Knowledge · 16 Oct 2026
Data centers require skilled professionals. Collaboration between IT and facilities, along with proactive maintenance and remote monitoring, helps address workforce shortages.
- Day 0 support for Reflection’s Beam on Google Cloud: 5x faster perf with llm-d and NVIDIA DynamoGoogle Cloud Blog · 16 Oct 2026
Today, Reflection released Beam, its first open-weight model built to give developers, researchers, and enterprises open control and customization for frontier software engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. Released under a…
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