Melissa Palmer

The Hidden Constraint in the AI Race: Communities Saying No

The Hidden Constraint in the AI Race: Communities Saying No

Melissa Palmer
November 29, 2025

Something fundamental is shifting inside the United States, and it has nothing to do with GPU supply or model sizes...

What AI Really Looks Like Inside the Enterprise

What AI Really Looks Like Inside the Enterprise

Melissa Palmer
November 29, 2025

I will admit faster than anyone that I live in the nuts and bolts of AI data centers and infrastructure....

AI memory and storage advances reshape how future data centers are planned

AI memory and storage advances reshape how future data centers are planned

Melissa Palmer
November 28, 2025

SK hynix is pushing hard on AI memory bandwidth and capacity with 12-layer HBM4 (2,048 I/O, ~40% better power efficiency)...

Nuclear-backed energy portfolio reshapes how future AI data centers are modeled

Nuclear-backed energy portfolio reshapes how future AI data centers are modeled

Melissa Palmer
November 28, 2025

Equinix is locking in up to 250 MWe of Rolls-Royce SMR nuclear capacity in the Netherlands to anchor future AI...

Cooling failure shuts markets; everyone reassess AI data center resilience

Cooling failure shuts markets; everyone reassess AI data center resilience

Melissa Palmer
November 28, 2025

CME had to halt all CME Globex futures and options trading for hours due to a cooling failure at a...

Secretive data center deals obscure AI’s local costs and tradeoffs

Secretive data center deals obscure AI’s local costs and tradeoffs

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

Microsoft’s role in converting the failed Foxconn site into a data center was inexplicably redacted from Wisconsin Public Service Commission...

Nashville emerges as key AI data center hub in Tennessee

Nashville emerges as key AI data center hub in Tennessee

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

What Happened: Tennessee now hosts about 60 data centers, with the greater Nashville area accounting for roughly half, including large...

Former Maine Air Force base becomes liquid‑cooled AI data center hub

Former Maine Air Force base becomes liquid‑cooled AI data center hub

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

What Happened: Maine’s first AI‑focused data center is being built at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, using...

Virginia’s new high-load power rates reshape AI data center economics

Virginia’s new high-load power rates reshape AI data center economics

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

What Happened: Virginia regulators approved higher electric rates for Dominion customers and created a new GS-5 rate class for very...

Using AI data centers to heat Danish homes and cut carbon

Using AI data centers to heat Danish homes and cut carbon

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

atNorth’s 22.5 MW DEN01 data center near Copenhagen will use direct liquid cooling and export waste heat into the local...

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