NEWS

Google's 780 MW Pine Island data center comes with 1,900 MW of new wind, solar and 100-hour storage, and Google pays for the grid work

Xcel says Google will cover any new grid infrastructure, and the storage piece is a 300 MW, 30 GWh Form Energy iron-air battery. The deal includes minimum payments and an exit fee if demand falls short, and it is still waiting on Minnesota regulators.

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Microsoft walked away from a 50 MW UK data center because grid power will not arrive until the 2030s.

Microsoft dropped its anchor deal for Nscale's planned 50 MW site in Loughton, Essex, after warnings the grid might not deliver power until the early to mid 2030s. The plan was 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs. The customer, chips and money were in place, and the interconnection date still decided it.

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CMMS MCP server, 0 stars: an AI assistant looks up assets, acknowledges alarms and moves work orders, with role checks

Work orders follow a real life cycle with an audit trail, and a read-only mode leaves the write tools out entirely. It ships with a made-up plant and a companion skill that teaches the agent the safe order of calls.

For maintenance planners and reliability engineers: a working pattern for letting an agent touch work orders without giving it free rein.