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AI Rack Density’s Real Limits: Power, Cooling, Failure Risk
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (899+ words) As AI racks push past 100 kW, electrical engineering and resilience planning – not chip counts – are setting the cap. For decades, each new generation of hardware has packed more compute into less space. AI accelerated that trend to a pace data…...
PJM’s Power Shortfall Puts Data Center Growth in Focus
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (1561+ words) PJM’s first large load process produced 12 proposals and no consensus. Now an accelerated procurement is addressing a 6.8 GW capacity shortfall. PJM’s latest capacity auction left the RTO 6.8 GW below its Reliability Requirement for the 2028/29 delivery year, increasing pressure on the grid…...
OpenAI Moves Energy Planning Inside Data Center Organization
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (1062+ words) OpenAI is adding an energy-technology role as it expands flexible-load, generation and storage strategies across its growing AI data center portfolio. OpenAI is moving energy planning inside its data center development organization, signaling that power technologies and flexible computing are…...
DOE Keeps Eddystone Plant Online Amid Data Center Demand Surge
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1137+ words) The 760 MW Eddystone coal plant will remain online longer as PJM faces rising data center load, generator retirements, and delayed power resources. The Department of Energy (DOE) has ordered PJM Interconnection and Constellation Energy to keep 760 MW of generation at…...
Liquid Cooling Options: RDHx, Direct-to-Chip, Immersion
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1168+ words) AI workloads push data center rack densities beyond the limits of air cooling. Three liquid cooling approaches offer different trade-offs and benefits. As AI and high-performance computing (HPC) drive up server power densities, data centers are turning to liquid cooling…...
Lancium, Nvidia Partner on Gigawatt-Scale AI Data Centers
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (1040+ words) Lancium says it has 4 GW under lease and 15+ GW of powered land as Nvidia partnership advances its grid-responsive AI data center model. Lancium is partnering with Nvidia to deploy the chipmaker’s AI factory technology across a portfolio that the Texas…...
Data Center Construction: Demand, Friction, and Discipline
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (452+ words) Data center buildouts are booming in 2026, but challenges like power, labor, and community concerns demand innovation and collaboration. Data center construction remains the defining infrastructure story of 2026. In a broader construction market showing signs of softness, digital infrastructure is a…...
De risking data centers through early grid insight
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (459+ words) Early grid intelligence helps data center developers reduce risk and speed decisions. Power availability has become the primary limiting factor for new U.S. data center development. AI-driven load growth is accelerating faster than grid expansion, resulting in congestion, long interconnection queues,…...
Zayo Locks Up Corning Fiber Capacity for AI Network Buildout
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (1143+ words) The agreement secures a material portion of the fiber Zayo needs for its 15,000 route-mile network expansion through 2030. Telecommunications firm Zayo is reserving manufacturing capacity with Corning for a material portion of the fiber it expects to need through 2030, protecting plans…...
EdgeCore Says Data Centers Should Pay Their Own Power Costs
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1193+ words) The developer-operator says it will fund the power infrastructure its campuses need, but the definition of “full cost” depends on how utilities allocate broader grid investments. EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure says it will fund the generation, transmission and delivery infrastructure its…...