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"The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;" -- Song of Solomon 2:12 (KJV)
University of Notre Dame | St. Joseph County Indiana -
ALWAYS ON
Touring the Coffee Shops of Nottingham
Nottingham is the county town of poet Lord Byron, of Sherwood Forest (Robin Hood legend), Sir Peter Mansfield, Nobel Laureate for his development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, architect of the Trent Building on the University Park campus.
Data Center Bust & Boom
We have followed development of the stack that governs these "installations" since 1993; nudging technical committees -- NFPA, IEEE, ASHRAE, BICSI, Uptime Institute, TIOA, UL among others. The topic improvises daily. Today we review public consultations even though we know, at this pace, whatever standard stabilizes will soon be unstable. We can also poke at the Draft 2028 National Electrical Safety Code.
National Electrical Code CMP 16 & 17 & 18
Today at the usual hour we sort through the issues carried in the transcripts linked herein. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Quadrivium: Winter
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Gallery: Supercomputers & Data Centers
A collection of education community data center and supercomputer design, construction and operation videos over the past 24 months. As a general rule, it costs between $600 to $1,200 per gross square foot or $8 million to $16 million per megawatt of commissioned information technology load to build a data center. Links to PyTorch, TensorFlow and JAX backgrounders for training Large Language Models.
RELLIS Data and Research Center
Case Study: The RELLIS Campus Data Center will service all major Texas markets: Dallas | Houston | San Antonio | Austin. The claim of a sticker cost of $10 million seems low. The project faces financial challenges; not the least of which is the bankruptcy of the developer. Links to more timely information herein.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
“What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town”
Research and reflections on the artificial intelligence zietgeist.