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Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium
By Luke James Published
Fill-and-flush is a commissioning step whereby crews fill a cooling loop's piping with water and flush it to clear debris before the system is run.

Startup unveils 3D-printed nuclear reactor module to power AI data centers
By Jowi Morales Published
A nuclear power plant in a container (or three).

Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits
By Etiido Uko Published
Blackstone-owned QTS has withdrawn its final appeal for Virginia’s 22-million-square-foot Digital Gateway campus, ending the massive data center project.

Meta reportedly plans to rent out its AI compute, sending AI stocks tumbling
By Luke James Published
Meta is reportedly weighing two service models: selling developers access to AI models hosted on its own infrastructure, or selling raw computing capacity.

Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists
By Jowi Morales Published
Dominic Toretto would be stealing servers, not TVs and VCRs, if The Fast and the Furious was set today.

China unifies tech sector to build grid-free orbiting satellite AI data centers, challenging Elon Musk's SpaceX
By Jowi Morales Published
Beijing says the Space Computing Industry Innovation Center will bring together rocket and satellite manufacturers, chip manufacturers, and AI labs to develop a space-based data center system.

Amazon workers who testified against AI data centers say they were intimidated by the company, monitored at work
By Jowi Morales Published
The three Amazon workers claim that they've been intimidated during the Zoom meetings and were being monitored while at work.

US energy regulator to order grid operators to expedite AI data center applications — says projects should bring their own power or cut usage during high demand
By Jowi Morales Published
The federal government wants more data centers to come online — as long as they do not impact the electricity supply.

Multiple small Tennessee counties pass temporary data center bans
By Jowi Morales Published
Local governments demand more time to study how they can manage the impacts of huge data center projects.

Amazon says its data centers consume only 0.075% of the water Americans use for watering their lawns and gardens
By Jowi Morales Published
Amazon says that it uses 2.5 billion gallons of water annually for data center cooling but compares it to the 3.3 trillion gallons of water used for watering lawns and gardens in the U.S. every year.
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