September 2, 2026 — The DOE's Quiet Rulebook for Efficient Data Centers

A quiet news day sends us into the Department of Energy's own best-practice guide for data center design — what the FEMP and NREL framework actually says, what it doesn't, and why we're holding two bigger stories (a First Amendment fight over a leaked Google power contract in Arkansas, and Texas's reckoning with phantom grid demand) for upcoming episodes. • Linked sources: Best Practice Guide for Data Center Design — U.S. DOE Federal Energy Management Program (https://energy.gov/sites/default/file...) Concrete Compute is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.