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Leak Detection for Liquid Cooling in AI Data Centers
This paper presents a proof-of-concept IoT system that combines LSTM and Random Forest machine learning models to forecast and detect coolant leaks in liquid-cooled AI data centers.
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The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island
This study analyzes 5,000 of Europe's largest cities to measure how size and shape affect urban heat island intensity. Larger, more compact and more circular cities show stronger heat island effects, with city size having the strongest influence, followed by compactness, then shape. The researchers note that smaller, dispersed, elongated cities see less heat buildup,…
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Importance of Noise Hygiene in Dairy Cattle Farming—A Review
This review synthesizes research on noise pollution in dairy cattle farming, covering machinery, ventilation systems and animal vocalizations as sources of chronic and sudden noise. It traces effects on cows to reduced milk yield, elevated stress hormones and reproductive disruption, and on farm workers to hearing loss from years of exposure above occupational limits.
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Reclaiming Energy Abundance: The Role of Environmental Lawyering, Clean Energy Advocacy, and the Need to Build Right by Megan Gibson :: SSRN
This law review article argues that "energy abundance" must mean building clean, affordable and reliable energy infrastructure quickly, not deregulating for any energy project. Southern Environmental Law Center attorney Megan Gibson traces how outdated laws like the Natural Gas Act let fossil-fuel infrastructure sidestep scrutiny, examines a Department of Energy permitting program aimed at speeding…
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Data Center Tax Breaks Come at the Cost of Our Public Schools
This West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy analysis traces how HB 2014's tax breaks and deregulation for "High Impact Data Centers" cut into the property, sales and income taxes that fund public schools. Under the law, property tax revenue from these data centers sends 70 percent to state priorities and just 30 percent to…
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Data Centers and Construction Employment
This is a recap of a ReImagineAppalachia webinar on making data center construction jobs good jobs — with fair wages, safety standards and training pathways — for workers in West Virginia and Virginia. Building-trades leaders from Mid-Atlantic LECET, WV Affiliated Construction Trades and WV State Building Trades spoke, and the recap links to sample Project…
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From incident to insight: Fire risk in modern data centers – ScienceDirect
Eight data center fires have happened from 2021 to 2025 in the US, France and South Korea. They all trace back to electrical faults, lithium-ion battery thermal runaway, water damage and human error. This Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries paper analyzes those incidents and recommends fire safety upgrades, including AI-driven fault detection,…
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(PDF) The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world
Researchers led by Andrea Marinoni at the University of Cambridge use two decades of NASA land-surface temperature data to show AI data centers raise local temperatures by 2°C on average once they start operating, creating what the study calls a data heat island effect. The analysis estimates more than 340 million people worldwide live in…
Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms