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While residents of Fayette County, Georgia were being told to conserve water during a state-declared drought emergency, a massive data center next door was gulping down nearly 30 million gallons of the stuff without a working meter, and without paying a dime. The facility in question belongs to Quality Technology Services, better known as QTS, which is owned by private equity giant Blackstone. The company’s Project Excalibur development consumed an estimated 29 to 30 million gallons of unmetered water over a 15-month construction period. When the county finally caught the issue and ran the numbers, QTS owed a grand total of $147,474 in retroactive charges. That works out to roughly $0.005 per gallon, a rate significantly lower than what local residents pay for their own water. A metering failure during a drought The oversight wasn’t malicious hacking or
At its peak, the Androscoggin paper mill in Jay, Maine, a rural town about 67 miles northwest of Portland, employed about 1,500 people - until a pulp digester exploded in 2020, forcing the mill to close permanently.
In 2023, the 1.4 million-square-foot facility was purchased through a joint venture by JGT2 Redevelopment and a number of other holding and capital companies. The project is led by developer Tony McDonald. Over the next three years, McDonald and his team broke down the mill's machinery and shipped it to Pakistan, and worked to clean up the industrial site for resale. That resale agreement was finalized earlier this year, accord …
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The incident highlights the need for robust infrastructure oversight, especially as data centers expand, to prevent resource mismanagement.
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IBM used its Red Hat Summit conference that’s taking place this week in Atlanta, Georgia as the location for the launch of Red Hat AI 3.4, a new release of […]
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Days after a township meeting ended with police forcibly removing a speaker, Andover Township officials announced they plan to ban all data centers — including those that fuel AI.
Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.
Increased scrutiny on resource-intensive industries may lead to stricter regulations, impacting operational costs and project timelines in Georgia.
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Felix Pinkston
May 11, 2026 20:27
NVIDIA’s new Fleet Intelligence service offers real-time GPU fleet monitoring, improving efficiency and reliability for data centers.
NVIDIA has announced the general availability of Fleet Intelligence, a managed service aimed at providing real-time monitoring for GPU fleets. Designed for data center operators and enterprises scaling NVIDIA GPUs, this service tackles the complexities of managing heterogeneous hardware, fast-evolving software stacks, and variable workloads. The goal is clear: optimize performance, reduce downtime, and maximize return on investment (ROI). Fleet Intelligence employs a lightweight, host-based agent to stream telemetry data to a cloud-based platform. This enables precise insights into key operational metrics, including power consumption, temperature, performance, health, and configuration consistency. NVIDIA
JPMorgan AI spending has been reclassified from discretionary innovation to core infrastructure, placing it alongside data centers and cybersecurity in the bank’s budget. JPMorgan has reclassified JPMorgan AI investment as core infrastructure, treating its $2bn annual budget as non-negotiable as…
