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Data center vacancies hit historic lows despite record construction

Network World

Primary markets such as Northern Virginia, Atlanta, and San Francisco, had a record 6,350 megawatts (MW) under construction at the end of 2024, more than double the 3,077.8 And even with those record construction rates, the overall vacancy rate in primary markets fell to a record-low 1.9% MW capacity being built at the end of 2023.

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Protecting Workers with a Digital Safety Net

CIO Business Intelligence

When construction began on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in 1933, it was still considered a novel idea to rig up a simple safety net under the structure. That net caught 19 falling workers. The mobile app offers these utility workers a digital safety net. Ensuring a fast response.

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Google bets on nuclear power to drive AI expansion

Network World

Challenges for AI companies SMRs are being promoted as a clean energy solution, aligning with the net-zero carbon ambitions that most major tech companies have embraced. Managing and regulating nuclear power will also be a significant challenge, with some US states banning or restricting the construction of new nuclear plants.

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Modular architecture drives productivity and risk management at Gilbane

CIO Business Intelligence

Gilbane is one of the largest privately-held real estate development and construction companies in the US. When you look at other industries like manufacturing and services, productivity has continually increased, whereas business productivity in construction has remained fairly flat.” People build buildings.”

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Seattle tech co. breaks ground on world’s first ‘net zero energy’ high-rise apartment building

GeekWire

An artist’s rendering of 303 Battery, billed as the world’s first net zero energy apartment building, which is being erected in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood by Sustainable Living Innovations. It’s being constructed with a patented design that uses panels manufactured at a plant in Tacoma, Wash. SLI Image).

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Pacific Northwest companies merge and raise cash to build energy efficient, modular construction tech

GeekWire

Chapin realized that togetherness in a newly announced business merger between NODE, the Seattle-based, carbon-cutting construction company that they co-founded, and Seattle and Portland’s Green Canopy, an eco-focused real estate developer and home builder. Greening construction using tech. “So let’s be together.”.

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Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 15% in 2019, highlighting the challenge of net zero emissions

GeekWire

Amazon has pledged to make its retail and cloud-computing operations “net carbon zero” by 2040, but its newly released 2019 sustainability report shows that greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%. (Jordan Stead / Amazon Photo).

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