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Industry Update: Autumn Edition - September 13th
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Industry Update: Autumn Edition - September 13th

Oracle posted a strong fiscal Q1 but investors sold the news anyway, AMD's bullish AI market call sent shares sharply higher, and the data center industry's regulatory headwinds intensified as local moratoriums quadrupled since June. Here's what technicians, engineers, and job seekers need to know this week.

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Industry Update: Broadcom's AI Beat, Stock Drop
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Industry Update: Broadcom's AI Beat, Stock Drop

Broadcom beat Q3 estimates and raised its AI revenue outlook, yet its stock fell through the week on soft Q4 guidance — a pattern job seekers should understand. Elsewhere: Equinix partnered with Nvidia, AWS committed to a new trans-Pacific cable, Flex bought into power electronics, and a California court forced a hyperscale data center back into environmental review.

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Industry Update: Week of August 30th - Nvidia's Record Quarter Meets Grid Pushback
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Industry Update: Week of August 30th - Nvidia's Record Quarter Meets Grid Pushback

This week seemed to crystallize a tension we've been watching build for months: capital keeps pouring into AI infrastructure at a pace that still surprises us, even as grid operators and local governments seem increasingly willing to slow projects down. Below is our read on what happened and why it might matter — offered as analysis and opinion, not as definitive fact.

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Data Center Industry Update: July 26, 2026
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Data Center Industry Update: July 26, 2026

AWS's Bahrain region remains offline as renewed US-Iran hostilities put data center infrastructure squarely in the conflict zone, while a volatile week of trading saw Alphabet raise its 2026 capex guidance to as much as $205 billion and chip stocks swing sharply on earnings and geopolitics. IREN locked in $2.8 billion in new AI cloud contracts, Intel confirmed cuts inside its own Data Center Group, and the Trump administration expanded its push to keep AI's power costs off ratepayers' bills. For job seekers, the through-line is the same as it's been all year: capital and capacity are racing ahead of the workforce that has to build, power, and secure it.

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