Weekly Summary - 2026-06-21

Lead Story

TAR raises $27m to build behind-the-meter renewable power systems for data centers - report

Directly relevant to datacenter efficiency, resilience, and future capacity planning.

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Top Stories

From Grid Constraints to On-Site Solutions: The Future of Data Center Power

Directly relevant to datacenter efficiency, resilience, and future capacity planning.

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Plans filed for three-building data center campus in Northumberland, UK

A meaningful infrastructure development for operators, builders, and capacity watchers.

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Evaporative Cooling in Data Centers: Why the Industry Hesitates to Move On

Directly relevant to datacenter efficiency, resilience, and future capacity planning.

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FERC Targets Grid Rules for Data Centers and Large Loads

Directly relevant to datacenter efficiency, resilience, and future capacity planning.

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Missouri Emerges as the Next Hyperscale Frontier Amid Growing Power Demands

Directly relevant to datacenter efficiency, resilience, and future capacity planning.

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Briefs

Google unveils new open-source liquid-to-air cooling sidecar for air-cooled environments

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HPE, Vultr Go All In on AI Inference Data Center Growth

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Oracle denies $3bn Microsoft data center deal collapsed over security and compliance concerns

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AI’s Next Data Center Challenge: Scaling Memory for the Inference Era

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Equinix launches sixth data center in Hong Kong

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STT GDC launches data center in Seoul, South Korea

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Watchlist

Hyperco files to build another data center in Kouvola

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Digi Power X sued over noise from New York crypto mining site

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Vertiv's acquisition of ThermoKey closes

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High-performance computing system ‘FRIDA’ launched in Slovenia

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Sources Checked

Hacker News (15 posts)
Simon Willison (3 posts)
OpenAI Blog (3 posts)
Data Center Knowledge (3 posts)
Data Center Dynamics (3 posts)
NVIDIA AI Blog (3 posts)
AWS News Blog (2 posts)
Google DeepMind Blog (2 posts)
Google AI Blog (2 posts)
r/MachineLearning (3 posts)
Hacker News Frontpage (3 posts)
Google DeepMind Blog (1 posts)