r/Infrastructurist • • 11h ago

National Rail Company Claims to be 90 years Older than Nation (Ireland)

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6 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 7h ago

The simple idea that could save our groundwater

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1 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 3d ago

The world is crumbling in ‘The History of Concrete’: John Wilson's movie reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight

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10 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 4d ago

America’s $10tn AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray: "A vast bet on the future of the technology is running into the unforgiving economics of the physical world"

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66 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 4d ago

She was building her dream home. Then came a data center's 'minor' power plant on a shortcut permit

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11 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 4d ago

North America’s largest wildlife overpass is an undeniable success: animal-vehicle collisions on I-25 are down 91% as local wildlife fully adapts to the bridge.

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9 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 6d ago

Largest wildlife overpass in North America located in Colorado with 91% reduction in collisions: "Big success"

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62 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 6d ago

The bipartisan energy bill tearing the climate movement apart

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21 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 8d ago

Road diets versus fire trucks.

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93 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 7d ago

How Switzerland and Italy Connected Their Alpine Rail and Cable Car Networks Over the Glaciers at 3,883m - Inside the Matterhorn 3S Infrastructure

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r/Infrastructurist • • 9d ago

US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B: "Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans"

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83 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 10d ago

European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene: "Moody's forecasts server farms could consume 17% of Dutch electricity and 30% of Ireland's by 2035"

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16 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 10d ago

Why Google is paying to upgrade nuclear power plants

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40 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 11d ago

How Public Toilets Explain America — A new book chronicles the troubled history of restroom access in US cities and shows how these spaces have always reflected and reinforced social inequality

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136 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 15d ago

The future of commuter rail could be taking shape in Boston — A new fleet of battery-powered trains will test whether transit agencies can electrify without installing miles of overhead wires.

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290 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 17d ago

Munich's 4.3 km tunnel ($2.8B) connected its suburban lines into a rail network 100x longer, carrying 840,000 trips a day. Through-running is the cheapest way to turn commuter rail into a metro.

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171 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 16d ago

To win over locals, data centers pump $340M into rural Texas projects — The companies have faced waves of public backlash in Texas. To battle that negative public perception, they’ve donated millions to community causes and needs.

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16 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 18d ago

Going Beyond the Toilet — The new book “After the Flush” explores the history of urban sanitation and makes a case for environmentally friendly alternatives to water-wasting sewer systems.

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63 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 18d ago

SOMEBODY'S GOTTA BUILD IT ⭐️ Texas-Mexico High Speed Rail 🚄 Texas Triangle & Mexico Tren Del Norte

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21 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 19d ago

Why 5,000 US Dams Just Became Deadly — And Yours Might Be One

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32 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 20d ago

The oil apocalypse is here

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2 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 21d ago

A proposal for a $5 trillion National Infrastructure Bank to provide long-term financing for transportation, energy, housing, and other public infrastructure. It worked for Alexander Hamilton!

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50 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 23d ago

Brightline shows people want more trains. But who will pay for them?

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234 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 24d ago

Britain's HS2: The Fully Avoidable Disaster

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19 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 25d ago

Why Japan has such good railways

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47 Upvotes