Alex Turner

Alex Turner is an engineer who works on data centre infrastructure. He writes about data centres as physical buildings, where the choices are forced by heat and by the grid long before anyone decides them.

Joined: 14/09/2026
Articles: 133

Standard shipping containers stacked four high at the Port of Rotterdam, with crane booms rising behind them

Software & AI

Agent Plugins 1.0: Why Claude Code Sat It Out

Agent Plugins 1.0 packages MCP into one portable format — but Anthropic, the protocol's own inventor, wasn't in the room.

Software developer terminal with code, illustrating Meta's Muse Code coding agent

Software & AI

Muse Code: Meta’s Monorepo Bet That Might Backfire

Muse Code is Meta's terminal AI agent tuned for giant monorepos — a design that could quietly work against small-repo developers.

NIST JILA ultracold atom optical lattice experiment, related to one-dimensional anyons research

Quantum Physics

One-Dimensional Anyons: Breaking Statistics Without Braiding

One-dimensional anyons ditch braiding entirely — cold-atom experiments show head-on collisions alone tune quantum statistics continuously.

One of the four-kilometre arms of the LIGO Hanford gravitational-wave detector running from the corner station across the Washington desert

Cosmology & Astrophysics

Primordial Black Hole Candidate S251112cm: Real or Noise?

Primordial black hole hunters have a new candidate, S251112cm — but its 1-in-4-year false alarm rate is barely better than a coin flip.

Magnon qubit quantum computing conduit illustration

Quantum Physics

Magnon Qubit Quantum Computing: Wrong Job Title?

Magnon qubit quantum computing headlines miss the point: real experiments show magnons acting as quantum memory, not stand-alone qubits.

Close-up of a USB hardware security key used for two-factor authentication, resting on a wooden desk

Software & AI

MCP Spec Update 2026: Why Auth Beats the 10,000-Server Hype

MCP spec update 2026 buries the real story under a 10,000-server headline — the actual unlock is boring auth and async Tasks, not new AI tricks.

3D chip stacking thermal limit illustration of silicon layers

Semiconductors & Electronics

3D Chip Stacking’s Thermal Limit Splits Cache From Cores

3D chip stacking's thermal limit lets cache stack almost free, but logic-on-logic still cooks itself — a split that won't close for years.

PLATON particle detector scintillator block illustration

Particle Physics

PLATON Particle Detector Swaps Millions of Fibers for AI

PLATON particle detector ditches millions of scintillator fibers for one block, a plenoptic camera, and a Transformer AI headed for PET scanners first.

Claude Code permission bypass illustrated as a cracked security gate with circuit patterns

Software & AI

Claude Code Permission Bypass Bugs Just Got Patched

Claude Code permission bypass bugs got patched in v2.1.214-215. The real risk? Brittle shell parsing, not AI judgment.

data center memory shortage 2026 silicon wafer HBM NAND

Semiconductors & Electronics

Data Center SSD Shortage 2026: Why NAND Lost to DRAM

The 2026 NAND and SSD shortage comes from fabs moving lines to DRAM and HBM. NAND contract prices rise 15 to 20% in 4Q26; plan for tight supply into 2027.