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Thomas Midgley's leaded gasoline beat ethanol because it could be patented. Better combustion chemistry had little to do with it.
800V DC Power for 1 MW Server Racks: Copper, Safety, EU Rules
At 1 MW a 54 V rack draws 18,519 A and an 800 V DC rack 1,250 A. Worked copper figures, EU rules, DC protection and hardware dates.
Quantum Error Correction Threshold Theorem: Why Scale Helps
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Phantom Data Center Power Demand Is Raising Your Bill
Phantom data center power demand is padding PJM's capacity auction — and ordinary households are paying for gigawatts that will never get built.
Intel Glass Core Substrate: Why It’s Not Shipping
Intel's glass core substrate is not in Clearwater Forest, which uses organic substrate and EMIB. What ECTC 2026 showed, and why glass is years away.
Samsung’s Floating Data Center: 50 MW, Permits Unsettled
Samsung and Mousterian have a 50 MW floating data centre engineering deal. Site, power and approvals remain unresolved; shipyard fabrication may still shorten delivery.
Texas Data Center Audit Freezes the AI Boom’s Friendliest State
Texas data center audit freezes AI project approvals — the friendliest state to hyperscalers just turned the brake on its own boom.
GitHub Copilot Code Review’s Agent Skills + MCP Recentralize Control
GitHub Copilot code review's new Agent Skills and MCP support went GA on July 29 — and it quietly hands PR governance to whoever runs the skill server.
AI Data Center Power Bottleneck: Rack Power and Grid Waits, 2026
Power, not GPUs, sets the schedule for an AI data center. What 10 MW of IT load holds at today's rack ratings, and the published grid waits in the US and Europe.
Wafer-Scale Inference Ends the GPU Cluster Era
Everyone's cheering GPT-5.6 Sol's 750 tokens per second. They're missing it: wafer-scale inference means OpenAI is quietly retiring the GPU cluster for its frontier model, and rewriting the physics of the AI data center.