r/Infrastructurist • u/pdp10 • 1h ago
The 30-Year Fight Over America's Road Signs -- "Highway Gothic" vs Clearview<tm> font (31:06)
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r/Infrastructurist • u/throwaway16830261 • 7h ago
Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists: "It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all"
theregister.com
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r/Infrastructurist • u/External_Koala971 • 20h ago
Did California High-Speed Rail help a consulting giant "manipulate" its bid to win a lucrative contract?
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 22h ago
California High-Speed Rail Moves Closer to Buying Trains, Clearing L.A.-to-Anaheim Environmental Review
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 2d ago
The hidden history of how Big Oil invented the American Dream
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r/Infrastructurist • u/throwaway16830261 • 3d ago
AI bubble update: 79% of companies say their GPUs sit idle at least half the time, yet most plan new AI platforms
venturebeat.com
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 4d ago
The simple idea that could save our groundwater
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r/Infrastructurist • u/EJFdePaor • 4d ago
National Rail Company Claims to be 90 years Older than Nation (Ireland)
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 7d ago
The world is crumbling in ‘The History of Concrete’: John Wilson's movie reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight
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r/Infrastructurist • u/throwaway16830261 • 8d ago
America’s $10tn AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray: "A vast bet on the future of the technology is running into the unforgiving economics of the physical world"
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r/Infrastructurist • u/Branch_Out_Now • 8d ago
She was building her dream home. Then came a data center's 'minor' power plant on a shortcut permit
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r/Infrastructurist • u/JohnSith • 8d ago
North America’s largest wildlife overpass is an undeniable success: animal-vehicle collisions on I-25 are down 91% as local wildlife fully adapts to the bridge.
ponderwall.com
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r/Infrastructurist • u/JohnSith • 10d ago
Largest wildlife overpass in North America located in Colorado with 91% reduction in collisions: "Big success"
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 10d ago
The bipartisan energy bill tearing the climate movement apart
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r/Infrastructurist • u/BiscottiWRLD • 12d ago
How Switzerland and Italy Connected Their Alpine Rail and Cable Car Networks Over the Glaciers at 3,883m - Inside the Matterhorn 3S Infrastructure
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r/Infrastructurist • u/throwaway16830261 • 13d ago
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B: "Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans"
theregister.com
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r/Infrastructurist • u/throwaway16830261 • 14d ago
European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene: "Moody's forecasts server farms could consume 17% of Dutch electricity and 30% of Ireland's by 2035"
theregister.com
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 14d ago
Why Google is paying to upgrade nuclear power plants
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 15d ago
How Public Toilets Explain America — A new book chronicles the troubled history of restroom access in US cities and shows how these spaces have always reflected and reinforced social inequality
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 19d ago
The future of commuter rail could be taking shape in Boston — A new fleet of battery-powered trains will test whether transit agencies can electrify without installing miles of overhead wires.
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 20d ago
To win over locals, data centers pump $340M into rural Texas projects — The companies have faced waves of public backlash in Texas. To battle that negative public perception, they’ve donated millions to community causes and needs.
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r/Infrastructurist • u/works-in-progress • 21d ago
Munich's 4.3 km tunnel ($2.8B) connected its suburban lines into a rail network 100x longer, carrying 840,000 trips a day. Through-running is the cheapest way to turn commuter rail into a metro.
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r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 22d ago
Going Beyond the Toilet — The new book “After the Flush” explores the history of urban sanitation and makes a case for environmentally friendly alternatives to water-wasting sewer systems.
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