Ars Technica
Russia tries to fix exposed digital infrastructure as data center war backfires. Russian tech companies are scrambling to harden and hide their data centers underground after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged facilities housing AI supercomputers and disrupted cloud services for millions of Russian users.
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Ars Technica
A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before. Every morning during the Martian spring and summer, a thin and extremely long cloud emerges, only to disappear again.
Wired
Servers turn most of their electricity into heat, and Germany's 2023 Energy Efficiency Act required new data centers to reuse part of it, often by feeding it into municipal heating systems. The government cut that down to a feasibility check after operators said it blocked projects, as Europe weighs AI ambitions against a pledge to cut emissions 55 percent by the end of the decade.
The Verge
Small modular reactors are factory-made nuclear plants designed to be built in repeatable units instead of one huge bespoke station. Amazon, X-energy and American Electric Power plan 12 Xe-100 reactors at a former coal site in Indiana, together rated at 960 megawatts for the grid and Amazon's data centers. The reactor design is still being licensed.
MIT Technology Review
Moore's Law, the long trend of packing more transistors onto chips, has slowed, and other scaling laws for power, storage and fiber are flattening too. Big gains now come from building larger data centers, with six major cloud companies on track to spend over $700 billion this year. These are engineering trends rather than physical limits, and physics still leaves room for denser computing.