Tracking the pulse of the digital backbone. 🔌 Deep dives into Data Center infrastructure, the AI power surge, and the future of the Grid.

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As Utah debates data centers on Earth, these companies are looking to space Companies including Blue Origin are exploring orbital data centers they say could someday complement computing facilities on Earth — and perhaps replace them.
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China Preps $295 Billion Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout
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Core Goods CPI posted first MoM drop (-0.114%) since May 2025. Main drivers were: Household furnishings and Supplies -0.042% Transportation Commodities ex motor oil: - 0.49% Medical Care Commodities -0.54%
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Manupilated CPI 0.5% MoM, Exp. 0.5% CPI Core 0.2% MoM, Exp. 0.3% CPI 4.2% YoY, Exp. 4.2% CPI Core 2.9% YoY, Exp.2.9%
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SoftBank’s talks with potential creditors to raise at least $6 billion from a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake is said to have stalled, how does this impact Oracle?
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POTUS, update
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Fire at Google Data Center? Google Cloud said it rerouted significant traffic away from the affected Delhi data center after local service capacity was reduced.
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Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decade
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Layers and layers of power!
Elon Musk explains the “series of miracles” SpaceX (xAI) had to pull off to get a full gigawatt of power online for the Colossus ll Memphis supercluster
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US data center construction YTD $49.5B — strong but 50% of 2026 plans risk delay/cancel from grid/transformer shortages. Key for power systems engineers. #DataCenterPower
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CloudBurst breaks ground on 1.2 GW Texas data center campus. Hyperscale AI buildout accelerating amid power crunch. #DataCenters #AIInfrastructure
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Let’s move Data Centers into Space!

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‘We should not have to sacrifice’: New York could become first state to temporarily ban large datacenters Kristen Gonzalez, a state senator who authored the bill, said moratorium would target ‘hyperscale’ datacenters over 20MW
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57,000 NIKKEI: THE TAKAICHI MANDATE. 🏁🇯🇵 🔹 The Number: 56,974.66 ( 5.56%) 🔹 The Result: LDP JIP secure a 2/3 Supermajority (352 seats). 🔹 The Catalyst: A total public endorsement of Takaichi’s 'Work, Work, Work' agenda. Japan just handed the 'Iron Lady' a record-breaking mandate to rewrite the fiscal playbook. With the power to override the upper house, the ¥21T stimulus and consumption tax cuts are no longer 'if,' but 'when.' Tokyo is officially the 'Risk-On' capital of 2026. 🛰️⚡️ #Nikkei225 #JapanElection #SanaeTakaichi #LDP #Macro #StockMarket
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The 2026 'Hardware Wall' is officially here. 🧱📉 🔹 RTX 5090: 1 year old and still selling out in 7 mins. GDDR7 shortages have pushed prices 75% over MSRP. $3,700 for a GPU is the new reality. 🎮💸 🔹 Blackwell Ultra: NVIDIA just moved to a 1-year cycle. The B300 is a 288GB beast that requires liquid cooling just to stay alive. 🛰️⚡️ 🔹 The AI Risk: While ChatGPT recovers from today's outage, new data shows 100% of enterprise AI systems can be breached in < 16 mins. 🤖⚠️ We aren't just in an AI race; we're in a physical infrastructure war. If you don't own the silicon, you don't own the future. 🦾🛰️ #NVIDIA #RTX5090 #Blackwell #AI #CyberSecurity #Macro
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AWS just hit a 7-year wall in Europe. 🧱🛑 As an engineer, the math is painful: AWS can build a data center in 2 years, but the grid takes 7 to plug it in. This 'mismatch' is officially stalling the AI expansion in the EU. 🔹 The Coalition: Amazon, Google, and Meta have joined GIGA to kill 'first-come, first-served' queues. 🤝 🔹 The Target: 2-year permit caps to end the 10-year wait times in Frankfurt and Dublin. 🔹 The Take: In 2026, the winner of 'AI Supremacy' isn't who has the best code—it’s who has the most reliable power socket. 🛰️⚡️ #AWS #Cloud #GIGA #EnergyCrisis #Engineering #Macro
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Gov. Josh Shapiro just laid down the law for PA’s data center boom: The GRID Standards. 🔌📉 As an engineer, the message is clear: The 'Cloud' isn't free. If you want to build in PA, you bring your own power and hire local. No more 'shrouding projects in secrecy' while ratepayers foot the bill. 1 Shapiro is betting that PA can win the 'AI Supremacy' race against China, but only if Big Tech plays by PA's rules on water and utility costs. The era of the blank-check data center is over. 🏗️⚡️ #JoshShapiro #DataCenters #GRID #AI #Macro #Pennsylvania
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