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Vantage’s 95-Ton NOx Permit Shows AI Self-Power Is Judged by Ceiling, Not Output
Internal emails show Virginia’s environmental regulator moved quickly to rebut a health study of Vantage’s gas-turbine-powered data center in Loudoun County. The dispute turned on the permit ceiling…
PJM’s 3.1 GW Data Center Dropout Shows AI’s Other Grid Risk: Load That Leaves
After one power line failed near Washington, DC, Northern Virginia data centers dropped about 3.1 GW from the PJM grid in 30 seconds. The event shows AI-era grid…
Fort Bliss’s 1,384 Acres Show Military AI’s Hard Limit Is Power, Not Land
Congress is pressing the Pentagon on data centers planned for military bases, including Carlyle’s 1,384-acre Fort Bliss site and CyrusOne at Dugway. The fight shows land is the…
Georgia’s 1,000-Mile AI Grid Build Shows the Cost the Rate Math Misses: Easements
Georgia Power is securing land for 1,000-plus miles of new transmission tied to data center growth, and nearly 30 homes sit in the way. Its projected $102-a-year residential…
LG’s 600kW Nvidia-Certified CDU Shows Why AI Cooling Is a Vetted-Vendor Market
LG Electronics won Nvidia certification for its 600kW liquid cooling unit, the first Korean company to do so. With AI racks near 120kW, cooling suppliers now compete on…
Air-Cooling 1 of 3 Botetourt Buildings Leaves Google’s 8M-Gallon Question Open
Google will use air cooling for the first building of its $3 billion Botetourt County, Virginia data center campus, a move aimed at cutting water use. Two more…
Verizon’s $1B+ Google Deal Shows Why Old Telecom Fiber Is Now AI Infrastructure
Verizon signed a dark fiber deal with Google worth more than $1 billion to connect Google’s AI data centers, disclosed on its Q2 2026 earnings call. It shows…
Russia-Linked Zimbra Exploit Takes 90 Days of Email on View. Patching Is the Defense
NSA and 26 partner agencies warn that Russian state-backed hackers are exploiting Zimbra webmail flaw CVE-2025-66376 to steal 90 days of email. Because the exploit fires when a…
Gold Eagle’s 4-Agency Clearinghouse Shows AI Bug-Finding Now Needs a Triage Desk
The White House launched Gold Eagle, an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse under EO 14409 that pools AI-found software flaws for critical infrastructure. Its design, which deduplicates scanning, ranks findings…