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Everyone Is Watching Meta’s $50B Campus. The Ratepayer Question Is Its 5 GW Math.
Louisiana regulators voted 3-1 to let Meta keep its Hyperion data center power and jobs calculations confidential, overturning a judge’s subpoena order. Those calculations underpin Entergy’s plan for…
Two of Australia’s 16 Cables Broke. For Data Centers, the Gap Is Fault Attribution
Subco lost two subsea cables off Perth inside a cable protection zone while a tanker circled overhead. With no built-in diagnostics, the cause stays unknown until inspection, and…
Mistral’s 1 GW Plan Shows Why Sovereign AI Compute Needs Buyers Before Builders
Mistral AI made EU and US inference endpoints generally available and unveiled European Compute Units, aiming for up to 1 GW of AI capacity by 2030. Its bet:…
Imperial Valley’s 330 MW Lawsuit Shows Water Rights Can Gate AI-Era Capacity
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing is suing the Imperial Irrigation District after it denied water for a planned 330 MW California data center. The case tests whether farm water…
Virginia’s 3.8 GW Data Center Trip Shows Why Ride-Through Is Becoming a Grid-Access Test
PJM is weighing ride-through requirements for data centers and crypto miners after 3,800 MW of load tripped offline in northern Virginia on July 22. The move could make…
Gunra’s 10 p.m.–6 a.m. Pattern Shows Why Edge Appliance Logs Belong Off the Box
A joint US–South Korean advisory on Gunra ransomware says the group breaks in through VPN and firewall appliances, steals data, then encrypts it. Because it wipes logs and…
OpenAI’s 95% vs 1.5% Cyber Test Moves AI Safety From Refusals to Access Control
OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6-Cyber, a cybersecurity AI model for authorized security work, and expanded its Daybreak Cyber Partner program. The model completed 95% of exploit-development test prompts, against 1.5%…
Aalo’s 50 MW Pod Shows Small Nuclear’s AI Benchmark Is On-Site Gas
Crusoe and Aalo Atomics will run a six-month test pairing Aalo’s small modular reactor with Crusoe’s Spark AI data center, aiming for 2029 deployments. Aalo’s 50 MW pod…
West Virginia’s 20-Year Data Center Plan Turns AI Site Selection Into a Power Project
West Virginia announced a Responsible Data Center Development Plan under House Bill 2014 on August 11, 2026. Hyperscale developers must bring or procure their own power, so every…