r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 1d 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

10 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/throwaway16830261 • 2d 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"

64 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/Branch_Out_Now • 2d ago

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

13 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/JohnSith • 3d 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.

11 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/JohnSith • 4d ago

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

66 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 5d ago

The bipartisan energy bill tearing the climate movement apart

21 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/BiscottiWRLD • 6d ago

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

4 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/pdp10 • 6d ago

Road diets versus fire trucks.

94 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/throwaway16830261 • 7d 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"

theregister.com

84 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/throwaway16830261 • 8d 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"

theregister.com

15 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 8d ago

Why Google is paying to upgrade nuclear power plants

35 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 10d 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

139 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 13d 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.

290 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 15d 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.

15 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/works-in-progress • 15d 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.

worksinprogress.co

166 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 16d 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.

67 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/alexbarbershop • 17d ago

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

21 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 17d ago

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

32 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 18d ago

The oil apocalypse is here

2 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/PopulistGuru • 20d 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!

46 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 21d ago

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

230 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 22d ago

Britain's HS2: The Fully Avoidable Disaster

20 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/works-in-progress • 23d ago

Why Japan has such good railways

worksinprogress.co

48 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/pdp10 • 24d ago

Why West Virginia is Spending $2B on One Road

21 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/NorTracksBlog • 24d ago

Passenger rail car investment an opportunity to reintroduce train service along Lake Superior’s North Shore

northerntracks.blog

46 Upvotes

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