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Fire resistant, quake safe, climate friendly: Mass timber is on the rise as a construction alternative

GeekWire

permitted under a set of new construction codes that allow for wooden high-rises up to 18 stories. Wood has been a building material for as long as humans have constructed shelters. ” Architect Susan Jones discussing the merits of mass timber construction at the offices of atelierjones. I’m really excited about the future.”

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First Look: Facebook’s Oregon Cold Storage Facility

Data Center Knowledge

Facebook has began migrating data to its newly constructed cold storage facility. On Tuesday it opened the facility to reporters, providing a look at a hyperscale implementation of custom-built long-term storage. Data Center Design Facebook Storage'

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Pacific Northwest National Lab gets green light to design and build a $75M grid storage facility

GeekWire

This is an early, conceptual rendering of what the Grid Storage Launchpad facility could look like on the PNNL campus in Richland, Wash. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will begin designing and building a $75 million facility in Eastern Washington that will help develop massive batteries for grid energy storage.

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Minnesota passes landmark right-to-repair law for electronic devices

TechSpot

The Minnesota law is part of an omnibus appropriations bill (SF 2774) that goes into effect on July 1, 2024, and contains a "digital fair repair" clause that covers most consumer electronics, except video game consoles, motor vehicles, medical devices, cybersecurity tools, residential energy storage systems, and farm and construction.

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Operations platform for private 5G networks can meet the specific needs of many vertical industries

TM Forum

For example, it is difficult to guarantee differentiated services, while construction and activation processes are long and difficult, as is configuring network capabilities. It has a cloud-based, distributed architecture, data storage, and query facilities, real-time data monitoring, customization capabilities and cloud edge technology.

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VMware continues cloud construction with March announcements

Storage IO Blog

VMware continues cloud construction with March announcements VMware continues cloud construction with March announcements of new features and other enhancements.

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The Problem With Earth’s Striking New ‘Black Box’

Gizmodo

A monolithic data storage site and art installation called “Earth’s Black Box” is slated for construction in Australia. Akin to a flight recorder, the device is meant to chronicle Earth’s journey toward environmental destruction, but it likely won’t have much of an impact. Read more.