ALWAYS ON
Reuben Sandwich
The Nebraska claim centers on Omaha’s Blackstone Hotel in the 1920s when Lithuanian-born Jewish grocer Reuben Kulakofsky requested a corned beef and sauerkraut sandwich during a late-night poker game with a group nicknamed “The Committee” which included hotel owner Charles Schimmel. Schimmel’s son Bernard (a European-trained chef) is refined it by adding Swiss cheese and dressing, then grilling it on rye.
Data Center Bust & Boom
Where is Standards Michigan LLC in this conversation? 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 frontier improvises daily. Today we review relevant, open public consultations even though we know, at present pace, there are no stable standards and probably shouldn't be.
“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.
“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.
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.
Application of Big Data in Power System Reform
You cannot simultaneously have Net Zero, the Green New Deal and a Blockchain-Based De-Centralized Education System. Periodt.
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.