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Google explores data center site in Roanoke County, Virginia
Evaluates the Wood Haven Technology Park as a site for project
Source: DatacenterDynamics. Headline and summary © the original publisher; read the full story at the link.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 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 learned to run a plain HTTP server with no adapter…
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Sponsored: Data center siting in the AI era: A smarter approach to environmental and community impact
Why smart siting matters for AI-driven data center growth
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ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup service after attackers abuse its Microsoft 365 access
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 a compromised credential belonging to the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application…
Source: Help Net Security. Headline and summary © the original publisher; read the full story at the link.
Sweet Security adds one-click protection for vulnerable cloud workloads
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 enforce protection in one click while engineering develops, tests, and…
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Curtis Hall proposes temporary 49.9MW gas power plant for Cardiff data center campus - report
Capacity just under the threshold required for Welsh gov't approval
Source: DatacenterDynamics. Headline and summary © the original publisher; read the full story at the link.
Valor Energy acquires computing site in Youngstown, Ohio
Company looks to pivot 18MW site into an AI data center
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Carrier Connect secures customer for 4MW data center outside Atlanta, Georgia
Company signs lease for entire facility just days after taking over the site
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Alcoa sells New York aluminum smelter to data center developer for $315 million
Company doesn’t name buyer, but signs point to cryptominer NYDIG
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Israel to cap capacity of new data centers at 200MW - report
New rules come as country faces unprecedented data center demand
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Microsoft pulls out of delayed Nscale data center in Loughton, Essex
Would have been Nscale's anchor tenant at the site
Source: DatacenterDynamics. Headline and summary © the original publisher; read the full story at the link.
GreenSquare launches first phase of data center campus in Sydney, Australia
Neocloud Sharon AI taking capacity at former IBM site
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RPO and RTO explained with a real disaster recovery example
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 data you can lose, measured in time. RTO, the recovery…
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The end of independent infrastructure roadmaps: how AI is forcing data center co-design
Idle accelerators represent stranded capital, wasted energy, and lower returns on some of the most expensive infrastructure investments in the data center
Source: DatacenterDynamics. Headline and summary © the original publisher; read the full story at the link.
Week in review: Hidden implant in Ledger wallets linked to $93M theft, 1,500+ npm packages exposed
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 for AI agents that pairs operating-system isolation with rules that…
Source: Help Net Security. Headline and summary © the original publisher; read the full story at the link.
Sponsored: The hidden costs: Why data center sustainability fails without operational discipline
How prioritizing the small things with sustained investment and follow-through can help to pave the way to achieving true data center sustainability goals
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Plans for data center in Moncalieri, Italy, put on hold by town mayor
Before its application was halted, the project was billed as Italy’s ‘largest’ data center
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[Industry Event] Advancing Data Center Construction East 2026
Source: Data Center Knowledge. Headline and summary © the original publisher; read the full story at the link.
Closing the Skills Gap in Data Center Facilities Management
Data centers require skilled professionals. Collaboration between IT and facilities, along with proactive maintenance and remote monitoring, helps address workforce shortages.
Source: Data Center Knowledge. Headline and summary © the original publisher; read the full story at the link.
Day 0 support for Reflection’s Beam on Google Cloud: 5x faster perf with llm-d and NVIDIA Dynamo
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 permissive Apache 2.0 license with BF16, FP8, and NVFP4 checkpoints…
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