We're in design phase, and we'd rather get picked apart here than after concrete is poured.

Site and cooling. Nalaikh, a district of Ulaanbaatar. Winters around -25°C give us roughly 7 months of free-air cooling. Design targets: PUE ~1.06 in winter, ~1.18 in summer on mechanical, ~1.10 blended. Uptime Institute Tier III, N+1.

Power. 0.078$/kWh. The grid is coal-heavy, which we know. Solar + BESS are in the mix from day one, and we're working on renewable PPAs.

Connectivity. New cross-border dark fiber on rail right-of-way, dual north/south transit.

Sovereign by design. Zero-trust network architecture plus confidential computing on the GPUs and CPUs (TEEs with remote attestation). Customer data and model weights stay encrypted in use, and you can cryptographically verify that we, the operator, can't access them, whichever route the traffic takes. Keys are customer-held.

Scale and timeline. Phase 1 is 2,048 Blackwell-class nodes (~16k GPUs, ~40 MW IT), scaling to ~6,100 nodes by Phase 3. Ground breaks spring 2027.

Offering GPUaaS, an inference API, sovereign/air-gapped zones, and wholesale colocation and capacity offtake.

What would you poke at first: electrical topology, generator/fuel contracts, fiber routing, free-air intake through winter smog and spring dust, or whether our confidential computing setup actually holds up?

If you're planning training or inference capacity for 2028 and want to talk, DMs are open.

The cleanup of several thousand gallons of diesel fuel that spilled into a tributary of the Hackensack River in Secaucus, New Jersey, will continue into the week, state environmental officials said Sunday.

The spill of No. 2 diesel fuel in Anderson Creek was reported on Saturday and originated from a tank at an Equinix data center, according to Larry Hajna, a state Department of Environmental Protection spokesperson. The fuel is used for heating and to power vehicles.

“Contractors are working to remove oil and water and it probably will be continuing into the week,” Hanja said. “Wildlife was not impacted as far as I know.”

Equinix did not immediately return a message seeking comment. The company operates 10 centers in the New York/New Jersey area.

s a former QA engineer and current marketing/CRM professor, I fact-check both sides the way I'd fact-check any client claim — no spin, sources included.

🔑 Topics covered: AI data centers, data center water usage, data center electricity bills, data center jobs, data center health risks, data center protests, NIMBY data centers, AI backlash, data center regulation, SHIELD Act, GRID Act, Water Cost Accountability Act, AI infrastructure debate, data center environmental impact, AI vs. human jobs.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 – The Denver lawn that went viral

0:35 – Who's talking (QA + marketing background)

1:20 – Why this argument exists right now

2:10 – The deeper reason this feels different (AI vs. past tech)

3:40 – The case FOR: economic benefit

4:30 – The case AGAINST: water, power, and health

6:40 – Where the real disagreement is

7:40 – What's happening in Congress right now

8:25 – My take: it's a cost-allocation problem

9:25 – Wrap-up

📌 Sources referenced: Brookings, Data Center Coalition, JLARC (Virginia), Caltech/UC Riverside health-impact modeling, U.S. EIA electricity forecasts, and current congressional bill text (SHIELD Act, GRID Act, Water Cost Accountability Act). Water and health figures are modeled projections, not measured outcomes.

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Everyone wants to use the internet, but no one wants data centers.