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EU Data Centre PUE 2025: What the First Figures Show
The Commission's first 2025 data-centre dashboard shows a PUE of 1.27 for 773 sites. What it covers, what it hides, and how to benchmark…
EU Data Centre Minimum Performance Standards: What to Submit by 14 December
The EU is consulting on possible performance floors for data centres, not enforcing them. What is being decided, and the evidence operators should submit.
European Data Centre Regulation Tracker: Rules, Status, Deadlines
Every EU, German, French, Irish and Dutch data-centre energy rule in one table, with exact thresholds, current status and the next date to act.
EU Data Centre Reporting Under the EED: What to Report and When
Who must report under the EU Energy Efficiency Directive, the 24 indicators, deadlines, what stays confidential, and a worked PUE, WUE, ERF, REF example.
How to Choose a Data Centre Location: Five Maps, Two Permanent
Siting a data centre means overlaying five constraint maps. Three are dissolving this decade. Two never will, and they point to a place we…
OVHcloud Data Centre Fire: How Its Cheapest Design Lost Everything
OVHcloud's SBG2 fire traces back to its free-cooling design: the chimney that made it cheap left no sealed room for a gas system to…
AI Energy Per Query: Same Prompt, Two Different Numbers
AI energy per query differs 2.4x for the same median prompt depending on method, and the popular figure answers a narrower question.
800V DC Power Is Solving AI Racks’ Copper Crisis
800V DC is replacing 54V busbars in AI racks because 1MW at 54V means about 18,500 amps. How much copper it saves depends on…
AI Model Collapse Is a Curation Failure
AI model collapse comes from uncurated synthetic data, and the text shortage only pushes labs toward it. Curation decides which labs keep improving.
Data Center Opposition Is Now America’s Real AI Bottleneck
Local opposition blocked or delayed $130 billion of US data-center projects in Q1 2026. Why permits, not only power or chips, now limit the…
Equinix’s Nuclear Power Agreements: What Each One Secures
Equinix named four nuclear partners in 2025. Their agreements leave delivery questions open; the record does not support a single 6 GW deal.
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.
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.