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Data Center Water Use: From Efficiency Metrics to Real-World Resilience
Water has shifted from a background utility to a core constraint for data centers, requiring site-specific resilience planning that addresses peak stress, local hydrology, and community impact, not just average efficiency metrics.
Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they've triggered protests over how the infrastructure underpinning AI might stress power grids and local water systems. That's fueled partly by concerns about how difficult it is to see just how much electricity o
Same Roof, 10 Different Gases: What a Data Center Is Quietly Holding
Data centers’ reliability equipment – UPS batteries, refrigerants, and generators – creates hidden gas hazards that cause both safety incidents and costly outages.
Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction
Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.
Designing Layered Drone Defenses for Data Centers
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.
California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills designed to prevent AI data centers from passing utility costs onto residents, as reported earlier by the Los Angeles Times. The package of laws requires the California Public Utilities Commission to introduce a new rate classification for data centers, while forcing them to pay for upgrades to local power grids and water systems. Other bills included in the package will require proposed data centers to disclose their estimate
Enterprises Adopt Colocation for AI and Hybrid Cloud Initiatives
Enterprises are strategically choosing colocation data centers to host AI applications, deploy a hybrid cloud model, add incremental capacity, improve connectivity, and reduce costs.
Grid Constraints Steer Dutch Data Centers Beyond Amsterdam
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.
It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction.
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