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Mined the Gap: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Turning Crypto-Mines into Data Centers.
The maths behind what a converted bitcoin mining facility actually delivers, and why the bitcoin was probably the lesser asset worth having all along.
 • Tom Hyde
From One Runway to Another: A supply-chain love letter from fashion to aerospace
Fast fashion is an environmental disaster but a masterclass in responsiveness. The supply chain for aerospace spares could borrow the second thing…
 • Tom Hyde
Separation Anxiety: Borrowing the Sky's Playbook (but not its numbers)
Air traffic control solved dense-traffic safety a century ago. Robot fleets have copied the clever half and skipped the half that keeps things alive.
 • Tom Hyde
Lost the Plot, Kept the Lines: A Lesson in the Wrong Kind of Faithful
What engineers can steal from mapmakers who lie for a living
 • Tom Hyde
You’re Watching the Wrong Predator
xAI is positioned to become the most formidable hyperscaler on the planet. Until they start building in orbit...then, they'll eclipse all other data…
 • Tom Hyde
How Just-in-Case has replaced Just-in-Time in manufacturing
Redundancy has quietly become the biggest tenant in the warehouse market, but the cost of a cushion is more than just financial
 • Tom Hyde
The Elephant on the Quay: Can Shelf Prices Survive the Sea?
Ports are the grid bottleneck of physical goods, and we've underinvested in them for long enough - but that rent may soon be due...
 • Tom Hyde
Turbine the Tables: How data center operators can flip the energy equation
Data Center Operators could be turning their waste product into more efficient energy generation, and using surplus capital to invest in the very thing…
 • Tom Hyde
B-Roads beats Motorways: Why data centre operators can only mesh their compute in the UK, and not megaproject it
Hyperscale Campuses will die on a hill in the UK - A distributed, meshed network of smaller node Data Centre sites are faster, cheaper, and quietly the…
 • Tom Hyde
Racks & Retail: Why Amazon should be buying Britain's dead department stores
The high street is dying and the grid is full. Amazon is the one company that can vertically integrate to give life support to the UK’s high streets…
 • Tom Hyde
Ctrl+Alt+Delete on Data Center Appraisal: A holistic asset algorithm that redefines conventional valuation methodologies
There's a smarter way of valuing data center sites - one that's objective, formulaic and pragmatic. No need to attempt a comparative methodology of…
 • Tom Hyde
The Diamond-Standard of Server Architecture: A crystalline concept that calls time on the idea of racks
Modelling crystalline lattice structures to conceptualize a new mathematically-derived server layout architecture - delivering a 28.6% reduction in…
 • Tom Hyde
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