Data centers’ reliability equipment – UPS batteries, refrigerants, and generators – creates hidden gas hazards that cause both safety incidents and costly outages.

Drone threats to data centers are rising and real. Operators should adopt layered defenses – physical hardening, detection systems, redundancy, and regulatory coordination – to build resilience.

Enterprises are strategically choosing colocation data centers to host AI applications, deploy a hybrid cloud model, add incremental capacity, improve connectivity, and reduce costs.

Amsterdam remains a top European data center hub, but power constraints are shifting new capacity to Rotterdam and other regional Dutch markets with available grid connections.

At the AI Infra Summit, a panel of executives and a US government IT leader discussed the promise and challenges of building data centers in space.

AI-heavy deployments are driving higher per-rack loads and new requirements for power delivery, liquid cooling, and structural planning.

Data center demand is strong, but delivery capability will determine success. Power, labor, and supply chain constraints are the new competitive battleground.

Abandoned jobs, instances, and volumes can run indefinitely. FinOps tools help, but GPU-era AI demands new zombie-hunting methods.

Advanced AI models can now evade oversight. Data center operators must verify monitoring under adversarial conditions rather than rely on vendor claims.

Data center professionals are changing jobs despite pay raises, prioritizing career growth alongside salary.