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Nevada’s Cooling Tower Ban Moves Water Use Upstream
Nevada’s cooling tower ban cuts data center water use on site, but a new analysis argues it shifts roughly 100 million gallons upstream to power plants. We examine…
Jacobs Takes On Hut 8’s Second Texas AI Data Center
Jacobs has won an EPCM contract to deliver Hut 8’s second AI data center in Texas, adding heavyweight engineering management to the bitcoin miner’s pivot. The award signals…
Palo Alto Networks Maps How Frontier AI Is Reshaping Cyber Attack and Defense
Palo Alto Networks’ May 2026 Defender’s Guide update examines how frontier AI models are changing both cyberattack and cyberdefense playbooks. We look at what the guide’s framing signals…
CoreWeave Brings Red Hat AI Inference to CKS, Betting on Hybrid Inference
CoreWeave adds Red Hat AI Inference Server support to its CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS), targeting hybrid AI inference across cloud and on-premises environments. We analyze what the pairing…
Micro Data Centers at Grid Substations: A Pressure Valve for AI Power Demand
Micro data centers sited at utility substations could ease AI-driven strain on the power grid, IEEE Spectrum reports. We examine how substation-sited compute works, the economics of distributed…
NIST Rewrites PNT Cybersecurity Guidance for the CSF 2.0 Era
NIST has revised its PNT cybersecurity guidance under CSF 2.0 to cover GPS jamming and spoofing, AI risk and supply-chain threats. Data center, grid and telecom operators depend…
AiOnX Lands Hyperscale Tenant Outside Dublin: Ireland’s Power Test
AiOnX has secured a hyperscale anchor tenant for its data centre campus outside Dublin, showing Ireland can still win large deals despite grid limits. The deal tests Ireland’s…
JLL Brokers Japan’s Largest-Ever Data Center Transaction
JLL says it advised on the largest data center transaction ever completed in Japan, a milestone for a market squeezed by Tokyo and Osaka capacity scarcity. The advisory…
Goldman Sachs Calls Optical Networking the Next AI Infrastructure Mega-Trend
Goldman Sachs identifies optical networking as the next mega-trend in AI infrastructure, as AI clusters outgrow copper interconnects. We examine what the call covers, why light-based links matter…