Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] Google investing another $1 billion into Council Bluffs, Iowa data center. This addition puts the whole project at just under 3 million square feet and more than $6 billion invested into the data center. And then there is a small $576 million for the first part of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa data center.
[Link] Bitcoin mining giant Riot posts impressive June 2024 production and operations update. The company exceeded Q2 targets by reaching 22 Exahash/s deployed hash rate. CEO Jason Les explains in this video how they deployed 7.3 EH/s in June alone while walking through the data centers; some with rows and rows of liquid-cooled miners. Riot also says they earned $6.2 million in power credits, reducing net cost of power to an estimated 2.4c/kWh at the Rockdale Facility and 3.9c/kWh at the Corsicana Facility. I’ve watched this company for a while now, and they are building incredible infrastructure.
[Link] Industry icon Marc Andreessen posted this great interview on X recently. I am a big fan of Marc and can relate to almost all of the technological changes he has witnessed and worked on throughout his career. In (I think) 1994 I helped my boss install Mosaic Web Server on a SGI computer. 🤩
[Link] Vaire Computing raises $4.5M for ‘reversible computing’ moonshot which could drastically reduce energy needs.
🤯 of the week:
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