About Mission Critical Research

Mission Critical Research is an independent research publication on the physical layer of AI infrastructure: who is building AI-scale data centres and where, the power, cooling, grid connections, equipment and supply chains they depend on, how they are commissioned, and the failures that show where they are weakest.

What we cover

Equipment and components, outages and incidents, grid and interconnection, projects and supply chain. We also report AI model news, including new models from the leading labs, attributed to the lab that released them. We also follow new entrants in data-centre hardware and software, patents and legal cases in the field, and the conference calendar. We start with Canada and the United States, and look further afield when events are significant.

What we do not do

We do not publish marketing, rumours presented as fact, politics, or promotion of any company's services.

How claims are attributed

Every claim names who made it. A company's statement is reported as the company's, a plan stays a plan, a press report is credited to the publication that ran it, and allegations in court filings remain allegations. Each article ends with links to its sources.

How we write and check

Every item is written in our own words and links the original. Facts are reported as the source states them; quotes are short and attributed. Each number and date is checked against its source before an item is published, and a forecast is always attributed to its author. News is current: we report news from the last seven days. The date on each article is the day we published it, and the article itself says when the news happened.

Who publishes it

Mission Critical Research is published by Mission Critical Engineers Ltd. Editorial content is independent of client engagements.