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The Boston GlobeOct 13, 2026

An underwater AI data center proposal has residents up in arms in Downeast Maine

A developer wants to sink a data center to the seafloor off eastern Maine, powering it with the region's strong tides and using seawater to absorb the heat that servers produce. The early vision includes an 80-foot concrete frame, pressurized cylinders, up to 50 tidal turbines and a 1.5-mile cable to shore. Eastport has imposed a 180-day moratorium while residents raise concerns about the bay and its marine life.

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CNBCOct 10, 2026

Nvidia GPUs are everywhere. Here are the ways companies are accessing them

Modern AI models are trained on GPUs, the processors that crunch neural networks, and renting them beats buying. CNBC lists the options, from big clouds like Amazon, Microsoft and Google to newer GPU specialists called neoclouds, online marketplaces and direct purchases; an industry researcher counted 323 companies offering Nvidia GPU capacity in September, up from 209 under a year earlier.

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Ars TechnicaOct 9, 2026
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
Data centers are buildings full of servers that many online services depend on, and the war in Ukraine has turned them into targets on both sides. Ukrainian drones damaged two of Yandex's five data centers, including a site that houses two of the three supercomputers used to train its YandexGPT AI model, and Russian users saw streaming, banking and railway apps disrupted.
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Ars TechnicaOct 5, 2026
Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
Data centers hold the servers and network equipment that keep phone and internet service running, which is why strikes on Kyiv's facilities since late September knocked out service for around 100,000 households at one point. Ukrainian officials say Russia's newer jet-powered drones are much harder to intercept than earlier models and are asking allies for more air defense before winter.
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YahooOct 4, 2026
Microsoft using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature
Data centers use a lot of power and water, so Microsoft is restoring wetlands and planting native gardens at more than 20 sites to help the buildings blend into local ecosystems. An internal tool called Ecosystem Intelligence scores each site for water quality, biodiversity and noise, and plant buffers cut the sound.
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Ars TechnicaOct 2, 2026
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
AI data centers need enormous amounts of electricity and water, and Amazon is promising more than $1 billion over five years for host communities, plus no higher power bills and no drained water supplies. Critics say the pledge ignores pollution from the gas plants and diesel backup generators that keep those sites running.
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CloudflareOct 1, 2026
Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
Event streaming keeps producers and consumers apart: a service stores events in order so each reader can process them at its own pace without dropping data when a consumer lags. Cloudflare's K2, in beta, builds those logs on R2 object storage instead of a broker cluster, batching events into files and relying on the storage layer's atomic operations to keep their order; writes can take a second.
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Donga ScienceSep 27, 2026
Google launches TPU to test Gemini-powered space data centers
Solar panels in orbit can face the sun almost continuously, and Google says a space data center could generate up to eight times more electricity than one on the ground. A satellite launching October 1 carries four TPU chips that will run 15-minute computing bursts with Gemini, then power down to cool. Google says both ground tests went better than expected.
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An underwater AI data center proposal has residents up in arms in Downeast Maine

Nvidia GPUs are everywhere. Here are the ways companies are accessing them

Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps

Microsoft using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

Google launches TPU to test Gemini-powered space data centers

How load balancers keep sites online

Where your photos actually live in the cloud

An underwater AI data center proposal has residents up in arms in Downeast Maine

Nvidia GPUs are everywhere. Here are the ways companies are accessing them

Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps

Microsoft using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

Google launches TPU to test Gemini-powered space data centers