Sean Michael Kerner
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Can Supercapacitors Smooth AI’s Power Swings? (opens the original)
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Supercapacitors promise millisecond response for AI-induced power transients, but most experts see them complementing, not replacing, UPS systems and batteries. AI workloads can create load swings far sharper than steady-state compute, producing hard power spikes that conventional architectures struggle to absorb. Supercapacitors, also called ultracapacitors, sit between conventional capacitors and batteries. They store energy as a surface charge rather than through a battery’s chemical reaction
How Comb Lasers Could Reshape AI Data Center Links (opens the original)
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Optical frequency combs generate many wavelengths from a single laser instead of using separate lasers per channel, cutting power, cost, and failure points as AI data centers scale to 16+ wavelengths per fiber. Data center operators building AI clusters need more bandwidth without expanding power and space budgets. One emerging answer is better handling of the light that carries data. Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) increases fiber capacity by sending multiple colors of light down the sam
The Ripple Effect of Data Center Project Cancellations and Delays (opens the original)
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Canceled data center projects leave utilities with stranded infrastructure costs that are often passed on to ratepayers, while capacity reassignment can take months or years to resolve. When a large data center project pauses or walks away, it leaves behind more than an empty site. Connecting a facility to the power grid typically requires securing a place in a utility’s interconnection queue, posting a deposit to hold that place, and often having the utility build or expand substations or trans
AI Rack Density’s Real Limits: Power, Cooling, Failure Risk (opens the original)
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As AI racks push past 100 kW, electrical engineering and resilience planning – not chip counts – are setting the cap. For decades, each new generation of hardware has packed more compute into less space. AI accelerated that trend to a pace data centers have never seen before, as operators try to squeeze maximum performance from every rack in AI factory deployments. The change has been dramatic. Racks that seemed extreme two years ago now look ordinary, with the next jump already on the build she
AI Drives Data Center Uncertainty in Uptime’s 2026 Survey (opens the original)
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Uptime’s 2026 survey shows AI raising costs and density while narrowing management focus, as operators hedge with phased builds and struggle to forecast capacity. Uncertainty is rising across the data center sector as operators try to anticipate how fast – and how far – AI will push capacity, cost, and operational demand. AI is compressing once-separate risks – costs, capacity forecasting, power, and talent – pushing rack density higher, nudging workloads to third-party sites, and forcing phased
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