Microsoft: next-generation data centers use chip-level cooling and zero water for cooling, avoiding more than 125 million liters per data center per year.
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Evidence registryGoogle, Nvidia and Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance to promote flexible AI data centers that can adjust electricity demand in response to grid conditions. The coalition is pushing utilities, grid operators and regulators to treat ver…
AI Industrial Flywheel (⚙️🤖🔥)Virginia’s State Corporation Commission ordered Dominion Energy to develop a tariff framework that assigns more transmission costs directly to data centers and other large-load customers when upgrades are built for them. The move follows Gov. Abigail Spanberg…
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Signals & Charts (📈)Microsoft has pulled out of its planned role at Nscale’s Loughton, Essex AI data-center project, according to Reuters, the Guardian and BBC-backed reporting. The project had been announced in 2025 as a major UK AI supercomputer site for Azure services, with 5…
AI Industrial Flywheel (⚙️🤖🔥)AI infrastructure, data-center power demand, nuclear economics, compute cycles, and the energy engine of the 2030s.
Research avenueGoogle and Constellation announced a long-term PJM power package on October 6, 2026, centered on 890 MW of new nuclear capacity from uprates at existing reactors and 2,700 MW of additional supply. The structure matters because it links AI data-center growth t…
AI Industrial Flywheel (⚙️🤖🔥)SpaceX is targeting October 1, 2026, for the Transporter-18 rideshare from Vandenberg, with Project Suncatcher M1 listed in the deployment sequence as a Planet Labs-manifested payload. Google says the mission will gather in-orbit data on TPU behavior under la…
AI Industrial Flywheel (⚙️🤖🔥)Oracle issued a force-majeure notice tied to Project Jupiter, a New Mexico AI data-center campus being developed by Blue Owl-owned STACK Infrastructure to support OpenAI. Reuters reported the notice is reverberating through AI-infrastructure financing discuss…
AI Industrial Flywheel (⚙️🤖🔥)Alibaba announced a full-stack AI roadmap at its Apsara Conference on September 22, 2026, including the Zhenwu V900 AI processor, Qwen 4 training, future Qwen models planned at 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters, and a target for Alibaba Cloud global data-c…
AI Industrial Flywheel (⚙️🤖🔥)Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said on September 21, 2026 that policymakers should watch whether AI data-center construction is spilling beyond its sector and pushing aggregate output above capacity. The significance is not that the Fed is targeting AI…
AI Industrial Flywheel (⚙️🤖🔥)EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin signed a final partial repeal of the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for fossil-fuel power plants and paired it with a proposal to rescind remaining greenhouse-gas standards for the sector under Clean Air Act Section 111. EPA fram…
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