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• Dec 12, 2025

  Powering the Massachusetts AI Hub with Dell AI Infrastructure

  Dell Technologies has announced it will provide the foundational AI infrastructure for the Massachusetts AI Hub, a public‑private initiative led by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with academic and industry partners.

  • Dell AI infrastructure configured at its Franklin, Massachusetts facility underpins the Hub’s high‑performance compute platform for LLM training and applied research, supporting secure, locally governed Sovereign AI and hands‑on access for students and researchers across disciplines.
  • The Massachusetts AI Hub is positioned as a replicable public‑private model, with the State of Massachusetts, MIT CSAIL, Cambridge Computer and other partners collaborating to align mission outcomes, scalable infrastructure, workforce skills and governance to accelerate research, responsible AI adoption and regional economic growth.
• Dec 12, 2025

  The friendliest type of energy generation: a conversation on agrivoltaics

  The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) has launched a 42-panel agrivoltaics installation at its Community Farm at Roundabout Meadows in Virginia, designed to generate 100% of the farm’s electricity while maintaining active crop production between the panels.

  • Project details and goals: The 42-panel agrivoltaics system powers all farm operations, integrates rows of vegetables between panels, includes battery storage, and is engineered as a farm-forward, easily replicable design for other farmers and urban/built environments; PEC will measure energy and crop output, test soils for PFAS and heavy metals, and publish plans for panel recycling and responsible decommissioning.
  • Policy, grid and land-use context: PEC highlights that rising utility bills driven by data center demand increase the value of on-farm solar, and argues that widespread 1 MW agrivoltaic projects on Virginia’s 39,000 farms could yield 39 GW, exceeding current peak load in Dominion territory; the article stresses the need for easier local permitting and interconnection, protection of net metering, and expanded distributed generation and virtual power plant arrangements to reduce pressure on prime agricultural land and avoid building costly gas peaker plants.
• Dec 11, 2025

  Think Like a Mountaineer: Lessons in Speed, Safety and Scaling with Crusoe

  Crusoe has announced rapid expansion as a sustainable AI infrastructure provider, including building a 1.2 GW data center campus for OpenAI and Oracle and deploying a large microgrid using solar and second-life EV batteries.

  • Crusoe has raised over $1 billion, is building a 1.2 GW Abilene data center campus for OpenAI and Oracle, delivered its first 200 MW building in 11 months, and unveiled North America’s largest microgrid powered by large-scale solar and second-life EV batteries as part of its vertically integrated, sustainable AI infrastructure strategy.
  • CEO Chase Lochmiller applies a “mountaineer mindset”—deep preparation, moving light and fast but safely, strong safety culture, and curiosity-driven design—which underpins Crusoe’s shift from flared-gas bitcoin mining to GW-scale AI data centers, supported by institutional partners like Brookfield and Blue Owl and highlighted across MCJ’s podcasts, videos, and community content.
• Dec 11, 2025

  New materials could boost the energy efficiency of microelectronics

  MIT researchers have announced a new back-end-of-line integration platform that stacks ultra-thin indium-oxide transistors and ferroelectric memory directly on existing CMOS circuits to boost energy efficiency for computation-intensive tasks like generative AI.

  • The team uses amorphous indium oxide grown at ~150°C on the chip back end to form ~2 nm-thick channel layers and ~20 nm memory transistors with ferroelectric hafnium-zirconium-oxide, achieving 10-nanosecond switching at lower voltages, enabling compact, energy-efficient logic-plus-memory stacks.
  • The work, presented in two papers at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting and supported by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Intel, involves collaborators at MIT, the University of Waterloo, and Samsung Electronics, with fabrication at MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and MIT.nano, and aims toward integrating these back-end memory transistors into larger circuits and refining ferroelectric material control.
• Dec 10, 2025

  3 Ways NVIDIA Is Powering the Industrial Revolution

  NVIDIA highlights that its accelerated GPU computing platform now dominates leading supercomputing benchmarks and underpins three AI scaling laws — pretraining, post‑training and test‑time compute — enabling generative, agentic and physical AI.

  • GPU leadership & efficiency: Over 85% of TOP100 supercomputers now use GPUs; NVIDIA GPUs top the Green500 with 70.1 gigaflops per watt vs 15.5 for CPU-only systems, and an 8,192 H100 GPU system achieved 410 trillion traversed edges per second on Graph500, more than doubling the next best (≈150,000 CPUs), while Snowflake integrated NVIDIA A10 GPUs and CUDA‑X (cuML, cuDF) to deliver up to 200x speedups on some ML workloads.
  • AI scaling laws & physical AI stack: NVIDIA positions GPUs as essential across pretraining, post‑training and test‑time scaling, supporting 1.4 million open‑source models, powering hyperscaler recommender and search systems, and enabling physical AI via a three‑system stack (DGX GB300 for training, RTX PRO with Omniverse for simulation, Jetson Thor for real‑time inference) alongside initiatives like Project GR00T for humanoid robots showcased at GTC DC 2025.
• Dec 10, 2025

  Springdale residents, environmental groups gather to oppose data center; more events planned

  TribLIVE’s homepage lists a roundup of local, regional and national headlines, including a story that Springdale residents and environmental groups are organizing to oppose a proposed data center and plan additional events.

  • Main announcement: TribLIVE highlights that Springdale residents and environmental groups have gathered to oppose a data center project and have more events planned to organize opposition; the story is listed in the Valley News Dispatch section with related local coverage.
  • Other concrete details on the page:Greensburg Pension Commission returned $62K to a former chief; an editorial references a $3 million moonlighting failure in Pittsburgh; a wire story notes Paramount challenging a $72 billion Netflix offer for Warner Bros; the roundup also includes a sustainability piece on holiday shopping emissions and a story on Expiring Obamacare subsidies affecting Pennie enrollment.
• Dec 10, 2025

  Top Environmental Victories of 2025

  The Sierra Club announces a roundup of its top environmental victories in 2025.

  • Major announced actions: The article catalogs specific legal, legislative, and advocacy wins including: stopping a proposed public-lands sell-off after Congressional withdrawal; passage of the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York (following Vermont in 2024) and introduced bills in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Maine; legal victories blocking Commonwealth LNG (coastal use permit terminated) and two lawsuits creating guardrails on data centers in Kansas and Michigan; NEVI program restart unlocking $2.7 billion for EV charging; and a $744 million jury verdict against Chevron for coastal damages in Louisiana.
  • Background and additional details: The piece lists species and land protections (Northern Rockies wolves, Colorado bison, Rice’s whales), closure of Merrimack Station (final New England coal plant) and repeal of an Ohio coal-bailout that would have cost nearly half a billion dollars, passage of Utah’s balcony solar law allowing small plug-in systems without utility approval, a coalition delivering ~500,000 public comments to defend the Roadless Rule (including 40,000 from Sierra Club advocates), and a world-record origami action sending more than 86,000 paper fish to oppose Enbridge’s Line 5.
• Dec 9, 2025

  GE Vernova raises multi-year financial outlook, doubles dividend and increases buyback authorization

  GE Vernova has announced updated 2025–2026 guidance, a higher 2028 financial outlook, and expanded capital return plans at its 2025 Investor Update in New York.

  • Financial guidance: The company targets 2025 revenue of $36–$37B, adjusted EBITDA margin of 8%–9%, and free cash flow of $3.5–$4.0B (raised from $3.0–$3.5B), rising in 2026 to $41–$42B revenue, 11%–13% adjusted EBITDA margin, and $4.5–$5.0B free cash flow, and by 2028 to $52B revenue, 20% adjusted EBITDA margin, and $22B+ cumulative free cash flow (2025–2028); segment outlooks include Power and Electrification margins rising to 22% and Wind reaching 6% margin with low-double-digit revenue declines.
  • Capital allocation and growth initiatives: The Board doubled the quarterly dividend to $0.50 per share (payable February 2, 2026 to holders of record January 5, 2026), increased the share repurchase authorization to $10B from $6B (with $3.3B already spent as of December 3, 2025), and highlighted plans for organic investments, targeted M&A, completion of the remaining 50% Prolec GE acquisition by mid-2026 (regulatory approvals pending), and long-term growth from a ~$200B backlog by 2028, Gas Power services in the 2030s, and breakthrough energy technologies including small modular nuclear reactors, carbon capture, solid oxide fuel cells, and grid technologies for data centers and grid modernization.
• Dec 2, 2025

  Data Center Jobs: Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Sales, Field Service and Facility Tech Jobs Available in Major Data Center Hotspots

  Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, posted a monthly roundup of active data center job openings on the Pkaza jobs board.

  • Main announcement: Data Center Frontier and Pkaza published a list of open roles (examples: Data Center Facility Technician, Electrical Commissioning Engineer, Construction Project Manager, Electrical Engineer, Critical Power Sales Associate, Sr Mechanical Engineer, Site Selection Manager/Director/VP, Electrical Project Manager, MEP Superintendent, Mechanical Commissioning Engineer, Engineering Design Director, Navy Nuke Facility Technician) posted on Pkaza’s jobs board; positions are available across many US cities including Ashburn, VA; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Montvale, NJ; Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; New Albany, OH; Phoenix, AZ.
  • Background and details: Roles are for mission-critical data center employers (developers, colo providers, contractors, commissioning firms) and frequently emphasize reliability, energy efficiency, sustainable design / LEED expertise and commissioning; some listings explicitly accept Navy Nuke / military veterans and many positions list multiple alternative locations or hybrid/remote options. Author: Kathy Hitchens (Data Center Frontier).
• Dec 2, 2025 · RMI

  The Five Types of Electro-Industrial States

  Rocky Mountain Institute presents a typology classifying US states into five electro-industrial archetypes.

  • Main announcement/action: RMI authors classify states into five archetypes — Momentum Hubs (Arizona, California), Fast‑Track Builders (Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ohio, Idaho), Policy Champions (New York, Michigan, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania), Open‑Door Starters (Vermont, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi, Iowa), and Early‑Stage Starters (Missouri, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Maine, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, West Virginia, Montana, Arkansas). The typology is based on policy reliability, regulatory ease, economic capacity, physical infrastructure (power and interconnection), and market momentum.
  • Background and details: The analysis highlights that market momentum and policy reliability should operate in tandem; low regulatory burdens accelerate short-term investment but may strain local housing and infrastructure without accompanying policy ambition. The authors reference the report GREASE Lightning as a policy playbook for designing investment-led, state-driven electro-industrial strategies.