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Tea Water & Scones
"The Professor discusses all sorts of stuff about tea..." -- With links to a recipe for Seafood Chowder with Cheese Scones from the Office of Student Living + a podcast from the European Conservative about Great Britain's "luxury belief" class that germinated in "Oxbridge" and London and its counterpart in government- loving New England institutions in the United States.
The Case Against Income Tax Exemption for Nonprofits
Hedge funds with a side hustle in education, research and sports?... "While many nonprofits do struggle with lack of funds and dire needs, there exists a group of tax-exempt entities for which profits regularly flow quite freely, often to the tune of more than $100 million, or even $1 billion or more. And yet, the public subsidizes each nonprofit in exactly the same manner..."
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.
Artificial Intelligence Standards
"...The National Institute for Standards and Technology seeks information regarding topics related to generative AI risk management, AI evaluation, and red-teaming..." Link to the newly-formed "U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute"
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are where people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. 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.
“What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town”
Research and reflections on the artificial intelligence zietgeist.
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). Next Tuesday we prepare proposals for Technical Committee CMP-2.
2029 National Electrical Code Panel 2
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Energy Standard for Data Centers
This title establishes minimum energy efficiency requirements for data centers; a permanent fixture in all education communities now undergoing a virtual +∞ asymptotic spike in generative intelligence transformation in ℝ³. At the moment this title is stable but can be revised in 30-90 day consultation cycles which will make it the dominant standard compared with IEEE and NFPA titles which move on a 3 to 5 year revision cadence.