ALWAYS ON
Earliest Coffee
Before the first 8 AM lecture begins, while the crew team puts its oars in the water and new life unfolds at University Hospital, the campus comes alive with gardeners, electricians, road crews builders beginning another summer day before it gets too hot.
2029 National Electrical Code Panel 3
Today at the usual hour we sort through new proposals covering power-limited circuits with particular interest in applicability in data centers.
“What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town”
We collect all the technical, legal and cultural ruses deployed by all sides of the artificial intelligence zietgeist; starting with this paper.
Data Center Operations & Maintenance
Like it or not data centers are the beating heart of the academy in all nations. Whether it is a 100 square foot closet or a 1,000,000 sq. ft. building they have maintenance requirements as surely as libraries needed security and housekeeping. The current 2024 edition sets the standard of care for the un-glamorous but essential role of keeping that heartbeat healthy.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 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.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”
Every new infrastructure project begins as someone else's problem. We collect our work in standards, codes and regulations informing the artificial intelligence zietgeist generally and the data center build out specifically. With link to orbital data center frontier.