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“Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1”

"In this world you can search for everything except love and death. They find you when the time comes." -- Sergei Yesesin

“Their Favorite Song” | Joseph Lorusso

Today in History: Black Hawk Down

Ædificare | Renovation Standards

Are you Overbuilding?

“Etude pour les constructeurs” 1950 Fernand Leger

We follow the construction spend rate of the US education industry; using the US Census Bureau Construction Spending figures released the first day of every month.

We encourage our colleagues in the education facilities industry to respond to Census Bureau-retained data gathering contractors in order to contribute to the accuracy of the report.

“Dirait On” Riga Cathedral Boys Choir

“That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”

Summer Covers: Week 9

American Songbook

"The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, New Washington, 1938)
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— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) April 14, 2025

"All the Things You Are" 1939 | Jerome Kern
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— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) December 31, 2023

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.