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The co-location tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about data center infrastructure, including sovereign and AI-ready hosting, hybrid cloud connectivity, and the challenges of modernizing legacy facilities for AI workloads. Topics include Australian Data Centres' national expansion with senior hires, Digital Realty's new Azure ExpressRoute on-ramps for secure hybrid cloud, and AWS's pause in data center leases as a market normalcy. These threads explore how co-location providers are adapting to surging demand for high-assurance, AI-ready capacity and the strategic role of co-location in enterprise IT and cloud architecture.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Modernizing Legacy Data Centers for AI Workloads: Challenges and Solutions

    As enterprise data centers face a tidal wave of artificial intelligence (AI) demands, the industry finds itself at a crossroads: how can legacy data centers—originally engineered for significantly lighter workloads—adapt to the brute computational force and environmental challenges introduced by...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Digital Realty Expands Azure ExpressRoute on-Ramps for Faster, Secure Hybrid Cloud Connectivity

    Three’s the magic number, especially when it comes to cloud on-ramps, and Digital Realty seems to know it. The colocation and data center behemoth has just unboxed three shiny new Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute cloud on-ramps in its portfolio, a move that’s less “hey, neat!” and more “this could...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    AWS Pause in Data Center Leases: Real Threat or Market Normalcy?

    A pause at a cloud giant’s colocation negotiation table can send hyperscaler groupies spinning into speculation mode, but as Amazon steps into a datacenter lease reassessment – barely a flutter in its own conference rooms – the outside world presses its collective face against the glass and...