Daily Brief - 2026-06-23

Lead Story

Evaporative Cooling in Data Centers: Why the Industry Hesitates to Move On

Directly relevant to datacenter efficiency, resilience, and future capacity planning.

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Top Stories

FERC Targets Grid Rules for Data Centers, Large Loads

Directly relevant to datacenter efficiency, resilience, and future capacity planning.

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Building Data Centers Faster: Plays That De-Risk Delays

A meaningful infrastructure development for operators, builders, and capacity watchers.

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Microsoft plans 2GW data center campus in Pecos, Texas

A meaningful infrastructure development for operators, builders, and capacity watchers.

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Gigawatt-scale data center campus proposed in Kansas

A meaningful infrastructure development for operators, builders, and capacity watchers.

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NAIRR Science Program Reshapes Scientific Research, Powered by NVIDIA AI Infrastructure

Directly relevant to datacenter efficiency, resilience, and future capacity planning.

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Briefs

DCD Podcast - What data centers should expect from the next UK Prime Minister

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NVIDIA Vera CPU Opens the Way for Agentic Scientific AI at Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

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Securing the future of AI agents

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We’re strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support.

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Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers

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New research shows how AMIE, our medical AI, could help manage health conditions.

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Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world

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Watchlist

sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions

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Steam Machine launches today

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Sources Checked

Hacker News (15 posts)
Simon Willison (3 posts)
OpenAI Blog (3 posts)
Data Center Knowledge (3 posts)
Data Center Dynamics (3 posts)
NVIDIA AI Blog (3 posts)
AWS News Blog (2 posts)
Google DeepMind Blog (2 posts)
Google AI Blog (2 posts)
r/MachineLearning (3 posts)