Every infrastructure project begins as someone else’s problem. Eventually it becomes everyone’s necessity. The excitement surrounding AI infrastructure continues to keep aloft the practical questions that have always interested Standards Michigan: How do we build it? How do we operate it safely? And how do we standardize it so that it remains reliable for decades?
“Composition in red, yellow, blue and black” (1921) / Piet Mondrian
The zeitgeist surrounding data centers in higher education embodies a fervent fusion of technological ambition, sustainability imperatives, and workforce evolution, driven by AI’s insatiable hunger for compute power. Today at the usual hour we examine three projects on US campuses with special attention to the safety and sustainability boundaries set by electrotechnical strandards.
