The Data Center Local Frictions Report – December 2025 provides comprehensive intelligence on community and regulatory resistance facing data center development across the United States. This monthly analysis examines news articles to identify locality specific conflicts, revealing that nearly half of all data center coverage involves local opposition.
The report breaks down resistance by conflict type and identifies geographic hotspots where development faces the strongest headwinds.
This is essential reading for infrastructure planners, data center developers, infrastructure investors, utility planners, and policy makers navigating the complex landscape of AI-driven data center growth and its local impacts.
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I had a blast jumping into NASCAR with Hendrick Motorsports. Got to feel what it’s like inside, how to drive one, and experience first hand the detail and precision that happens in the pit crew. Video drops tomorrow at 9am, thank you to @jackassworld for sponsoring this one, and @TeamHendrick for allowing me into their teams and showing me everything that goes into this sport!
We are excited to join Nvidia's Nemotron Coalition of leading AI labs working together to advance open frontier foundation models.
To celebrate we have partnered with @nvidia and @nebiustf to provide 2 free weeks of the new Nemotron 3 Ultra model on the Nous Portal!
Today we're shipping Nemotron 3 Ultra.
A 550B MoE frontier-intelligence open model built for long-running agents.
It delivers 5x faster inference and lowers the cost of complex agentic tasks by up to 30% versus other open frontier models.
Absolute love seeing everyone using Hermes Desktop preview!
A ton of updates have already gone in and there's more to come to give yall the best possible experience
We at @NousResearch thank you <3
Cisco and NetApp are expanding FlexPod AI to help enterprises move from AI pilot to production faster. Built for inferencing and RAG workflows, it delivers validated performance with less friction as you scale.
Read the full announcement 👉 https://t.co/GrY0HHiz2l
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Model routing is an important thing
Controversial idea: the frontier labs will want their AI harness to be the moat, but ultimately the best case for consumers is that model capabilities flatten and commodify
Preview of the AI Harness Wars of 2027
We are in a golden age where, if you are good at systems and understanding, AI increases your abilities by an order of magnitude. But if you are not good at it, you just spin your wheels and end up nowhere helpful