Co-Packaged Optics Is Killing the Pluggable Transceiver
Everyone is cheering co-packaged optics for saving power. They are missing the real story: the pluggable transceiver, the most-swapped part in any AI data center, is being quietly executed.
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AI Data Center Water Didn’t Vanish, It Moved
Nvidia and Microsoft say they've crushed AI data center water use. They're right, inside the walls. But the water did not disappear; it evaporated at the power plant instead, invisibly and at scale.
Webb Telescope Reveals Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Predates Our Sun
Webb's latest data on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals a 12-billion-year-old cosmic visitor carrying deuterium 30 times higher than any solar system comet — and chemistry unlike anything we have ever known.
The $1 Trillion Data Center Boom Is Breaking the Grid
The AI data center boom has officially gone parabolic: global spending is crossing the $1 trillion mark in 2026, power demand is set to double, and the grid can't cope.
Microsoft’s Lead Swap Makes Qubits 1,000x More Stable
Microsoft's Majorana 2 chip swaps aluminum for lead, boosting topological qubit parity lifetimes by 1,000-fold to 20 seconds. One material change that could redefine the road to fault-tolerant quantum computing.
CRISPR Makes History: One Injection Ends Hereditary Angioedema
In vivo CRISPR gene editing has achieved its first Phase 3 victory: a single injection of lonvo-z cut hereditary angioedema attacks by 87%, with 62% of patients remaining entirely attack-free.
JUNO’s First Data Shatters Neutrino Precision Records
China's new JUNO neutrino detector has achieved 1.6 times better precision than all previous experiments combined—using just 59 days of data—bringing the neutrino mass hierarchy closer to resolution.
From CERN to the Edge Data Centers. My Long Journey
From particle collisions to edge data centres. The infrastructure that powers science and the infrastructure that powers the internet have more in common than you think.
Intelligence like Electricity and Data Center like Power Plants. The Future of an AI-Metered World
How AI is transforming intelligence into a commodity and data centers into power plants for an AI-Metered World.
How to Reduce Data Centre PUE: Measures and Real Results
Measured results and forecasts for cutting PUE, and the cases where a lower number saves nothing. Every figure sourced or marked as our calculation.
Unveiling the Quantum Realm: The Invisible Architecture of Reality
"Unlock the amazing secrets of quantum physics using simple analogies that explain our complex universe."
Quantum Internet Just Got Real: Inside the New York-Berlin Entanglement Trials
"Recent breakthroughs in Quantum Entanglement Swapping on commercial fiber networks in NYC and Berlin signal a scalable quantum internet."