ALWAYS ON
“Tea, Earl Grey, Hot”
American Institute of Physics: The command issued by the character Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" finds its way into the archive of photographs of Nobel Laureates consorting with politicians at the University of Michigan and elsewhere.
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.
Quadrivium: Spring
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 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
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.
Communication in the Presence of Noise
ABSTRACT. A method is developed for representing any communication system geometrically. Messages and the corresponding signals are points in two "function spaces," and the modulation process is a mapping of one space into the other.... (Claude Shannon, B.S. 1936 University of Michigan) -- "Father of the Information Age")
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”
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.