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  1. Last 7 days
    1. American hyperscalers are driving a data center buildout that's larger than the Manhattan Project and Apollo Program at their peaks.

      将美国 AI 数据中心建设规模与曼哈顿计划和阿波罗计划的峰值相比——这个类比既令人震惊,又揭示了竞争的本质已从技术竞争升级为「工业动员」。曼哈顿计划是战时国家意志的总动员,阿波罗计划是冷战荣耀的象征投入。如今的 AI 算力竞赛,在绝对体量上已超越这两个历史上最大规模的科技工程——而这场竞赛还远未触及天花板。

  2. Sep 2025
    1. During each call, Stewart said, Amazon officials have not been helpful."They wanted to do background checks on all my firefighters; I wouldn't let them," he said. "And we've struggled to gain access to emergencies. They'll stop us at the gate, and our medic units have been delayed. They're denying us access to patients.

      AWS denies first responder access to facilities

  3. Jul 2025
    1. Recently, OpenAI has shared something. In a blog post, CEO Sam Altman said that the average query uses about 0.34 watt hours of energy.

      OpenAI's accounting of text generation energy usage

      From the 10-Jun-2025 blog post:

      People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes. It also uses about 0.000085 gallons of water; roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.

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    1. Das Meeeis um die Antarktis bedeckt in diesem September so wenig Ozean Fläche wie in keinem September der Messgeschichte. Im September erreicht es seine maximale Ausdehnung. In diesem diesem Jahr liegt sie 1,75 Millionen Quadratmeter Kilometer unter dem langjährigen Durchschnitt und eine Million Quadratmeter unter dem bisher niedrigsten September-Maximum. Im Februar wurde auch bei der geringsten Ausdehnung des antarktischen Meereises ein Rekord verzeichnet. Ob und wie diese Entwicklung mit der globalen Erhitzung zusammenhängt ist noch unklar. Die obersten 300 m des Ozeans um die Antarktis sind deutlich wärmer als früher. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/antarctic-sea-ice-shrinks-to-lowest-annual-maximum-level-on-record-data-shows

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    1. In March, Fortum and Microsoft announced our joint plan for a ground-breaking data centre region in the Helsinki, Finland metro­politan area.

      Data centers and district heating - a perfect match. Clean electricity and then output for heat.

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