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Microsoft's AI datacenters are now completely closed loop, liquid-cooled w/ zero evaporation loss.
At construction, they are filled with as much water as a golf course during the summertime ONCE, then never again.
✅ Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - Microsoft
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Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - The Official Microsoft Blog
This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to...

1&1-Mobilfunknetz erreicht jeden vierten deutschen Haushalt
Das vierte deutsche Mobilfunknetz wächst. 1&1 meldet, die Versorgungsauflage für 2025 erfüllt zu haben. Auch die Altkunden sind jetzt alle im neuen 5G-Netz.

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-m…

Rams OL Dotson to return from injury vs. Bears https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47632834/rams-guard-kevin-dotson-return-injury-vs-bears

France is ditching American tech. When will Canada? - The Globe and Mail (@…)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-france-is-ditching-american-tech-when-will-canada/
Archive https://archive.ph/sBmHK
With gag orders you will find out when it is to late.
And us gouvernement is already using it's power to close foreign accounts at US companies.
From several ICJ judges the accounts at US companies are closed. No Microsoft, no banking.
And a little earlier closing the account of a Dutch bank with connection to Russia made it go bankrupt over night.

I'm wondering who the people are who plan, design, oversee construction of and finally manage these abominations.
When they get up in the morning, what are they asking themselves? What do they wish for? Who hurt them?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis

Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will use as much water/year as 2.5 average In-N-Outs, assuming only drinkable water and burgers (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/from-tokens-to-burgers-a-water-footprint

From Tokens to Burgers – A Water Footprint Face-Off
A different perspective on the datacenter water debate, forget tokens/watt or tokens/dollar, it's about tokens/burger, how many In-N-Outs is equivalent to the world's largest datacenter

Dienstag: Netzwerk des Bundestags ausgefallen, KI-Chatbot Grok im Schuleinsatz
Unruhe im Deutschen Bundestag xAI beginnt KI-Bildungsprogramm BSI überprüft E-Mail-Programme Kritik an Verbrenner-Aus Neuerungen für Autofahrer 2026

The cost-per-watt of compute for orbital solar data centers is $51.10/W vs. just $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital (Andrew McCalip)
https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters