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Minnesota law allows local police departments to use drones without a search warrant in specific cases:

1. during or in the aftermath of an emergency situation that involves the risk of death or bodily harm to a person;

2. at a public event where there is heightened risk to the safety of attendees;

3. to collect information from a public area if there is reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, among other situations;

4. to document evidence that is at imminent risk of destruction;

5. to search for a missing person;

6. to counter the risk of a terrorist attack by a specific individual or organization if the agency determines that credible intelligence indicates a risk;

7. to prevent the loss of life and property in natural or man-made disasters and to facilitate operational planning, rescue, and recovery operations in the aftermath of these disasters;

8. over a private area with the written consent of the occupant or a public area, for officer training or public relations purposes;

9. to collect information for crash reconstruction purposes after a serious or deadly collision occurring on a public road;

10. to conduct a threat assessment in anticipation of a specific event;

11. for purposes unrelated to law enforcement at the request of a government entity provided that the government entity makes the request in writing to the law enforcement agency and specifies the reason for the request and proposed period of use.

TeraWulf Considers $3.5B Debt Funding for Anthropic-Linked DC: Report

US-listed Bitcoin miner and hosting operator TeraWulf is reportedly exploring a major debt financing package aimed at expanding its Justified Data campus

Meta Announces Landmark $10 Billion, 1-Gigawatt AI Data Center Expansion

Following the recent rollout of its commercial AI compute rental services, Meta is further accelerating its infrastructure roadmap. The company has officially launched a massive, vertically integrated computing expansion project to solidify the underlying foundation of its global artificial intelligence ecosystem.

Meta is committing $10 billion to construct a state-of-the-art supercomputing hub, marking its 33rd global data center. This hyper-scale facility features a monumental planned power capacity of 1 gigawatt (1,000 MW)—making it one of the largest single-campus data center developments in history, with a power footprint capable of matching 750,000 localized households.

Strategic Shift: Power-First Site Selection

This $10 billion capital injection represents complete vertical integration, encompassing land acquisition, structural construction, power infrastructure, advanced cooling systems, and next-generation IT hardware.

This initiative signals a fundamental shift in how hyper-scale operators approach infrastructure:

Grid Capacity Over Labor Markets: Traditional site selection prioritized proximity to fiber networks or large tech labor pools. Meta’s latest strategy prioritizes direct, high-capacity grid access and proximity to robust energy generation.

Aggressive Deployment Timelines: A $10 billion deployment underscores market urgency. Meta is moving faster than typical utility planning cycles, creating significant opportunities for independent power producers capable of delivering power capacity within a tight 18-to-24-month window.

Unlocking Deregulated Power Markets: Operators are increasingly favoring markets that offer direct market access, streamlined interconnection queues, and flexible power purchase agreements (PPAs)—such as the ERCOT system in West Texas and rapidly growing energy corridors in Western Canada—to sustain 1 GW workloads with reliable, dispatchable power.

Regional Economic and Infrastructure Impact

The flagship development will be located in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada, representing Meta’s first major data center investment in the region.

To guarantee an uninterrupted, resilient power supply without straining local resources, Meta is fully funding the development of brand-new grid infrastructure. The company is actively collaborating with a coalition of regional stakeholders, including Greenlight Limited Partnership, AltaLink, Capital Power, and the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO), ensuring the facility is fully supported from day one.

Key Project Highlights:

Job Creation: The construction phase will create over 3,000 trade and construction jobs, followed by at least 300 long-term, full-time positions once the campus becomes fully operational.

Environmental Responsibility: Meta will fully absorb all utility and wastewater management fees associated with the facility’s operations, ensuring zero financial or environmental strain on the local municipality.

Silencing the "Compute Surplus" Debate

While Meta’s move to open up its idle capacity to the AI rental market initially sparked industry conversations regarding a potential "compute surplus," this $10 billion expansion confirms that Meta’s mid-to-long-term infrastructure scaling remains aggressive.

According to leading tech research firm SemiAnalysis, fears of overcapacity are unfounded. Meta’s data center construction and hardware procurement are projected to steadily accelerate, with capital expenditure (CapEx) expected to hit record highs by 2027.

Data shows that in the first half of 2026 alone, Meta secured over 5 gigawatts of compute capacity through third-party cloud and colocation agreements—a figure that does not even include its rapidly expanding self-built pipeline. Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that commercializing surplus capacity creates a sustainable, high-margin revenue stream, which in turn provides the stable cash flow needed to fund these massive, long-term infrastructure plays.

The Critical Role of Liquid Cooling and Lian Li’s Enterprise Solutions

As artificial intelligence workloads evolve from traditional LLM training to continuous, high-density inference, thermal management has become the primary bottleneck in data center design. To support 1 GW of high-density compute, Meta's new data center will deploy an advanced, water-saving closed-loop liquid-to-air dry cooling system, achieving zero-water consumption during standard cooling cycles.

In modern hyper-scale facilities, legacy air cooling is no longer sufficient to dissipate the extreme thermal design power (TDP) of next-generation AI accelerators. Liquid cooling has transitioned from an experimental alternative to an absolute operational necessity. By delivering liquid coolant directly to the chip, liquid cooling systems drastically reduce energy overhead, lower Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratings, and allow data centers to pack more computing density into a smaller physical footprint.

As data centers worldwide race to retrofit for high-density AI, industry leaders are turning to specialized thermal architectures. Lian Li, globally recognized for its precision engineering and innovative thermal designs, provides cutting-edge liquid cooling components and custom enclosure solutions tailored to meet these demanding enterprise standards. From ultra-reliable industrial pump systems to highly efficient radiators and modular liquid-loop configurations, Lian Li’s thermal management expertise helps modern data centers maximize hardware efficiency, prevent thermal throttling, and achieve the rigorous sustainability goals required by the next generation of supercomputing hubs.

Can a Traditional Data Center Support AI Workloads? A Practical Guide

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Fisk University was founded in 1866 to educate freed slaves. Now a $400M data center is coming to campus — and the community says they were blindsided. No town halls. No hearings. Just an announcement days after students left for summer. Rep. Justin Jones said it best: if a data center isn’t good enough for a zoo, why is it good enough for an HBCU?