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.
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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.
The Baltimore Sun
The US Department of Energy is lending up to $4.4 billion to restart three closed nuclear plants, partly to supply data centers. Restarting an existing reactor is faster and cheaper than building a new one, though owners must retrain workers, check equipment and restore licenses. The three plants would add 2.25 gigawatts, about enough for 2 million homes and businesses.