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Recent Massachusetts data center news

• Jan 14, 2026

  Emerging Data Center Markets: Key Locations to Watch in 2026

  Cushman & Wakefield reports that power and land constraints in major U.S. data center hubs are driving operators to consider secondary and tertiary markets.

  • Main announcement: Cushman & Wakefield finds power and land constraints in primary hubs (Northern Virginia, Phoenix, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Atlanta, Portland/Eastern Oregon) are shifting site selection toward secondary/tertiary markets; highlights include OpenAI’s Stargate (~$100 billion) and Vantage Frontier (~$25+ billion) as large upcoming projects.
  • Details/background: Regions such as Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Central Washington, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are offering economic incentives, faster approvals, and flexible regulatory frameworks; Central Washington offers low-cost hydro power enabling 100% renewable operation but is also facing power constraints.
• Jan 14, 2026

  Comcast to Sen. Warren – White House Ballroom Donation On the Level

  Comcast rejected suggestions it engaged in misconduct over a donation tied to a new $400 million ballroom at the Trump White House.

  • Main announcement: Comcast, via outside counsel Michael Bopp (Gibson Dunn) in a Dec. 15, 2025 letter, stated the company’s donation to the $400 million ballroom included no specific limitations or conditions and that the company had no expectations of anything in return; the letter did not disclose the dollar amount Comcast gave.
  • Additional details: The article also reports Gov. Hochul saying New York has $36 million for municipal broadband; Shentel’s Glo Fiber is offering 8 Gbps symmetrical service for 400,000 locations; Wells Fargo downgraded key cable stocks citing fiber and FWA threats; Array Digital declared a dividend after closing an AT&T deal; Lufthansa signed a deal with Starlink; and there are items on Iran limiting Starlink, state prison officials backing Carr on jamming cell phones, and Ruddy urging Newsmax fans to fight a 39% cap repeal.
• Jan 12, 2026 · IT Brief Asia

  New heat sinks cool NVIDIA Jetson Thor edge modules

  Advanced Thermal Solutions has launched a new line of heat sinks specifically engineered for NVIDIA Jetson Thor modules, comprising two active designs and one passive unit for edge AI and robotics applications.

  • Product details: Portfolio includes two active coolers and one passive heat sink; Active model A: 95W TDP at 50°C, dimensions 87 x 100.8 x 20 mm, weight 104g (frameless fan in aluminium fin field); Active model B: 175W TDP at 50°C, dimensions 92 x 100.8 x 28.6 mm (including blower), weight 174g (top-mounted ATS blower); Passive: up to 100W at 50°C with 500 LFM system airflow, aluminium construction, dimensions 87 x 100.8 x 20 mm, weight 168g. All units ship with pre-assembled thermal interface material (TIM) and are available for immediate shipping.
  • Background & company details: Designed for NVIDIA Jetson Thor modules (referenced NVIDIA figures: up to 2070 FP4 TFLOPS, 128 GB memory, 40-130 W power envelope); Advanced Thermal Solutions cites engineering and software development operations in the US and India, manufacturing in Norwood, Massachusetts, partnerships with global manufacturers and distribution in Asia; wider ATS portfolio spans air cooling, liquid cooling, refrigeration approaches, and laboratory/test equipment for thermal measurement.
• Jan 12, 2026

  Scattered network data impedes automation efforts

  Enterprise Management Associates published research on how network engineering teams establish and use Network Sources of Truth (NSoT).

  • Research & key findings: EMA’s report is based on in-depth interviews with 17 network engineering professionals and documents common NSoT challenges: management buy-in, fragmented data discovery/validation (IPAMs, spreadsheets, MongoDB), and user uptake/drift. The report cites real-world budget pushback such as a quote referencing $60,000–$70,000 (USD) as a difficult business justification for purchasing a source-of-truth product.
  • Practical recommendations & context: The column recommends a proof-of-concept mindset (start with homegrown/open-source for small scope, then evaluate vendors as scale grows), use of discovery tools and IPAM integrations to reconcile scattered data, obtaining mid/upper management directives to enforce cooperation, and technical controls like federation with IPAM, integrations, role-based access controls, and CLI restrictions to prevent NSoT drift.
• Jan 10, 2026

  Environment and Rule of Law Under Trump

  The second Trump Administration has slashed environmental regulations and programs, rescinded environmental justice orders, curtailed climate reporting and grants, and moved to withdraw the U.S. from international climate agreements while seeking to repeal the EPA “endangerment finding.”

  • Administrative actions and rollbacks: The administration rescinded past environmental justice orders, stopped Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) grants, eliminated EPA’s environmental justice arm, relaxed air and water pollution limits, and proposed ending mandatory greenhouse gas reporting; it also announced withdrawal from IPCC processes and the UNFCCC (the treaty was ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1992 and went into effect in 1993). EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to issue a final decision repealing the endangerment finding “this month” (Jan 2026), which would trigger judicial review in the D.C. Circuit and likely further appeals to the Supreme Court.

  • Legal and project-specific details / background:States, environmental groups and courts are challenging many rollbacks; a NYU study alleges repeated DOJ misrepresentations to courts, and the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has intervened earlier in cases; the administration has stopped five major offshore wind farms (one — the Revolution Farm off Rhode Island — was reported ~80% complete and a court ordered it allowed to finish), halted solar development on public lands, and opened the Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas development. Courts, appeals panels with numerous Trump appointees, and Congressional dynamics are central to implementation timelines.

• Jan 9, 2026

  Rethinking Infrastructure: Why Dell Private Cloud Outperforms HCI

  Dell Technologies positions Dell Private Cloud as a flexible, cost-saving alternative to HCI.

  • Main announcement/action: Dell promotes Dell Private Cloud (backed by the Dell Automation Platform) as a disaggregated, hypervisor-agnostic private cloud that preserves existing investments and delivers 44% lower total cost of acquisition versus HCI (Omdia technical validation, Dec 2025). It also claims 91% fewer manual deployment steps, node onboarding in <2 minutes, and clusters workload-ready in ~2.5 hours (Dell internal testing, May 2025).
  • Background and details: The offering supports a multi-hypervisor ecosystem (VMware, Red Hat, Nutanix, Microsoft — support slated for 2026), enables independent scaling of compute/storage/networking, decouples software licenses from specific hardware to avoid rip-and-replace, and provides Day 1 and Day 2 automation (validated blueprints, LCM prechecks, update advisors) to standardize lifecycle operations and reduce operational effort.
• Jan 7, 2026

  Patented: Making a Degradable Ice Straw and More North Texas Inventive Activity

  Prive Products of Dallas has received a newly granted U.S. patent for a system and method to make degradable drinking straws from ice, invented by Thomas Surgent (Patent No. 12484726).

  • Main announcement: Prive Products, LLC — Patent No. 12484726 (Application No. 17609970 filed 05/16/2020; 2026 days app to issue) — describes a system with tubes extending into a reservoir, a connecting bar delivering hot and cold fluid into the tubes, and a resulting hollow ice straw that can cool a beverage as liquid passes through the straw. The abstract states: “A system and method for making degradable drinking straws made of ice (or other frozen liquid(s)).”
  • Background & roundup details: Dallas-Fort Worth was ranked No. 9 among 250 metros for the week of 12/2/25 with 134 patents granted. The article is a patent roundup (announcement/summary) listing top assignees (e.g., Texas Instruments Inc. — 15 patents), notable grants (Bank of America, Dell, IBM, Verily, Lennox, Halliburton, etc.), and includes patent abstracts, assignees, inventor locations, application numbers and days from application to issue. For partnerships or deals, the article provides assignee and patent filing/issue dates but no implementation timelines beyond application and issue dates.
• Jan 6, 2026

  2026 network outage report and internet health check

  ThousandEyes (a Cisco division) reported 199 global network outage events for the week of Dec 29, 2025–Jan 4, 2026.

  • Weekly summary:199 global outage events were observed between Dec 29, 2025 and Jan 4, 2026, a 14% decrease from 231 the prior week; the U.S. saw 71 outages (down 29% from 100). The report breaks outages into ISP, public cloud network, and collaboration app categories and gives week-over-week percentage changes.
  • Notable incidents and timing: On Jan 2Hurricane Electric experienced an outage lasting 1 hour and 1 minute (first observed ~3:05 PM EST) impacting customers and downstream partners in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, India, and Singapore; on Dec 31Cogent Communications had a 9-minute outage (first observed ~7:50 PM EST) affecting the U.S., France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, and South Korea.
• Jan 6, 2026

  Data Center Jobs: Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Sales, Field Service and Facility Tech Jobs Available in Major Data Center Hotspots

  Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting, published a monthly roundup of current data center job openings on its jobs board.

  • Monthly jobs roundup: The post lists roughly 15–18 open roles (examples: Data Center Facility Technician, Electrical Commissioning Engineer, Construction Project Manager, Senior Electrical Engineer, Production Architect, Strategic Sales Account Manager, Mechanical Engineer, Site Selection Manager/Director/VP, Electrical Project Manager, Electrical Superintendent, Project Executive, MEP Construction Project Manager, Mechanical Commissioning Engineer, Engineering Design Director, Navy Nuke Facility Technician) with locations across the United States including Impact, TX; Ashburn, VA; Dallas, TX; Atlanta, GA; Reading, PA; Allentown, PA; Charlotte, NC; New Albany, OH; Lyndhurst, NJ; Boulder, CO; Richmond, VA; Austin, TX.
  • Role and employer context: Positions are listed with mission-critical data center providers, engineering design and commissioning firms, A/E/C architecture firms, equipment rental providers, electrical contractors and general contractors; listings repeatedly cite energy efficiency, sustainable design, and AI infrastructure support, and several technician roles explicitly note acceptance of Navy Nuke / military veterans.
• Jan 6, 2026

  Arista rides AI wave, but battle for campus networks looms

  Arista Networks is pursuing growth in AI-powered data center networking and expanding into enterprise campus and branch markets while acknowledging the need to strengthen channel strategy and partner for security.

  • Main announcement/action: Arista is accelerating two strategic initiatives: AI data center networking and enterprise campus/branch networking. Key, verifiable details: acquired VeloCloud from Broadcom (SD-WAN) to complete its campus stack; management set targets of > $10 billion revenue in 2026, a stated $1.5 billion AI aggregate for 2025 (backend + frontend), and a $1.25 billion campus revenue target next year (up from $750–$800 million this fiscal year). The company forecasts overall growth of ~20% and expects AI and campus increases of ~60% in 2026 per management remarks.
  • Background and supporting facts: Arista attributes success to focused leadership (Jayshree Ullal, Andy Bechtolsheim, Ken Duda), engineering strength in high-speed data center switching, and close partnerships with hyperscalers (Microsoft, Meta, Oracle) that drive nearly half of revenue from “cloud titans.” Analysts flag risks and implementation needs: channel strategy improvement under new COO Todd Nightingale, exposure to a small number of large customers, platformization/security convergence pressures, and competition from Cisco, Nvidia, Broadcom, and HPE.