Design and construction
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Design and construction Construction and operations
Ready for Service in Two Phases: Building 2 at Applied Digital's Polaris Forge 1
Applied Digital's results release of October 7, 2026 says the second building at its Polaris Forge 1 campus was delivered in two phases, on July 1 and October 1. It also names what is still under construction.
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Design and construction Construction and operations
A Row of Their Own: Data Centers in the Census Bureau's Table of Private Construction Spending
The U.S. Census Bureau's construction spending table of October 1, 2026, gives data centers a row of their own, under offices. Its preliminary August figure for that row is up from a year before, while the total for private construction is down.
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Design and construction Chips, racks and cooling
From the First Reporting Period: The European Commission's Report on the Energy Efficiency of Data Centers in the EU
The European Commission's report of September 21, 2026 assesses what data centers in the EU reported in a first reporting period, when only part of those required to report did so. It gives average scores for power and water use, and sets out a first step toward minimum performance standards.
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Design and construction Construction and operations
Particularly High Shortages in Electrically Skilled Occupations: The Energy Department's 2026 Energy and Employment Report
The U.S. Department of Energy released its 2026 Energy and Employment Report on September 3, 2026, and the report finds "particularly high shortages in electrically skilled occupations due to additional demand from the rapidly expanding data center sector."
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Design and construction Chips, racks and cooling
Liquid Cooling in Tropical Data Centres: Singapore's Standard SS 726
On August 27, 2026, Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority and Enterprise Singapore announced a national standard for liquid cooling in data centers in hot, humid climates. Their release and its fact sheet say it gives operators guidelines on design, commissioning, risk and operations, including on integrating liquid cooling with existing air-cooled data centers.
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Design and construction Construction and operations
Crews, Metal and Power: Data Centers in the Federal Reserve's Beige Book of August 2026
The Federal Reserve's Beige Book of August 2026 mentions data centers in several districts' reports, in construction, labor, materials and power. It summarizes what contacts outside the Federal Reserve System told the reserve banks, and says it "is not a commentary on the views of Federal Reserve officials."
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Design and construction Construction and operations
Several Districts Noting Growth in Data Center Building: The Federal Reserve's Beige Book of July 2026
The Federal Reserve's Beige Book of July 2026 says several of its districts noted growth in data center building. Its Dallas report says new projects are being hindered by limited access to energy, supply chain disruptions and public pushback, and a Philadelphia contact reported projects delayed by a shortage of electricians. It summarizes comments from contacts outside the Federal Reserve System.
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Design and construction Construction and operations
More Muted Than Vibrant: The Minneapolis Fed's Note on Its Spring Construction Survey
A note by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, dated June 22, 2026, reports a spring construction survey in which more than half of respondents reported lower activity. Some businesses, it says, stayed busy with data center work.
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Design and construction Chips, racks and cooling
Below the Rated Power, in a Simulation: A National Laboratory Measures the Power Drawn by AI Jobs
A paper whose authors give the National Laboratory of the Rockies as their address, stamped April 8, 2026, measures the power drawn by AI training, fine-tuning and inference jobs on a specific hardware setup, and scales the measurements up to two simulated data centers. In both, peak power stayed below the rated design. The paper lists its own limitations.
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Design and construction Chips, racks and cooling
A Backlog of Orders and Contracts: Vertiv's Results for the Fourth Quarter of 2025
Vertiv, whose portfolio covers power, cooling and IT infrastructure, reported its results for the fourth quarter of 2025 on February 11, 2026, with growth in its orders and in its backlog. The release does not split its orders or its backlog between power and cooling, and it says its forward-looking statements, its guidance among them, are not guarantees of performance.
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Design and construction Chips, racks and cooling
Direct Liquid Cooling: Super Micro's Call on Its Results for Fiscal 2025
On August 5, 2025, Super Micro Computer held its call on the fourth quarter and full year of its fiscal 2025. Its published script says the quarter's growth "was led by demand for next-generation air-cooled and direct liquid-cooled (DLC) AI GPU platforms," and describes what the company calls its Datacenter Building Block Solutions.
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Design and construction Chips, racks and cooling
Utilized for Liquid Cooled Servers: Munters' Order for Cooling Distribution Units
On November 7, 2024, Munters said it had received an order from a US colocation provider for its LCX system, a water-to-water cooling distribution unit "utilized for liquid cooled servers." The release also gives the company's own account of what liquid cooling and such units are for.
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Design and construction Chips, racks and cooling
Cold Plates and Immersion: Direct Liquid Cooling in the Best Practices Guide for Energy-Efficient Data Center Design
A best practices guide for energy-efficient data center design, revised in July 2024 with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management Program, says data center operators should consider direct liquid cooling of high-density servers, and sets out how cold plates and immersion carry heat away.
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Design and construction Chips, racks and cooling
Liquid-to-Chip Cooling: Digital Realty's Release on High-Density Deployment Support
On May 15, 2024, Digital Realty announced direct liquid cooling as an addition to its high-density colocation offering, with deployment options available in more than half of its data centers worldwide. It gives no count of racks in use.
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Design and construction Chips, racks and cooling
What Is Measured, and What Is Made Public: The Annexes to the European Commission's Delegated Act on a Rating Scheme for Data Centers
The annexes to a European Commission delegated act, dated March 14, 2024, set out what data centers must measure and communicate to a European database, from energy and water to reused heat, and how scores such as Power Usage Effectiveness are calculated. The database is to be publicly available on an aggregated level, by Member State and for the Union.
