Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Trump Orders Dramatic Speedup of U.S. Nuclear Energy Development, “Win the AI Arms Race with China”
May 23rd, 2025So it goes… Via: EENews: President Donald Trump on Friday directed his administration to launch fast-track development of new nuclear power plants, ordering the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to complete licensing of new reactor designs within 18 months and the Department of Energy to speed up reactor testing and start building on federally owned land over […]
OpenAI’s Stargate AI Facility in Texas Will Consume 1 Gigawatt of Power
May 20th, 2025The scale is very wild… Via: Bloomberg: In other news, Musk wrote, “Colossus 2 will be the first Gigawatt AI training supercluster.” Colossus 2 will be the first Gigawatt AI training supercluster https://t.co/HPjEeqg3be — Kekius Maximus (@elonmusk) May 20, 2025 Related: AI’s Energy Footprint
“Two People Familiar with the Matter” Claim Undocumented Cellular Radios Found in Chinese Solar Inverters, Batteries
May 15th, 2025While this wouldn’t surprise me in the least, the article is very thin on details. It doesn’t include any evidence at all to support the claims. Hopefully, this will get security researchers looking into the matter and publicly outing the manufacturers and models of the offending products. Via: Reuters: U.S. energy officials are reassessing the […]
White House Announces Saudi Arabia Spending $600 Billion on U.S. Goods and Services, Largest Weapons Deal Ever
May 13th, 2025Via: White House: Today in Saudi Arabia, President Donald J. Trump announced Saudi Arabia’s $600-billion commitment to invest in the United States… The first deals under the announcement strengthen our energy security, defense industry, technology leadership, and access to global infrastructure and critical minerals. … Underscoring our commitment to strengthening our defense and security partnership, […]
Will Supercapacitors Come to AI’s Rescue?
May 6th, 2025Musk had to use expensive Tesla Megapacks to handle the massive power fluctuations at xAI: AI datacenters, especially during training, bring extreme power fluctuations due to the nature of neural networks (gradient descent). xAI has the largest AI data centers. xAI is using Tesla Megapacks to handle millisecond power fluctuations. Supermicro provided the racks and […]
Brief Glimpse at Amazon’s Kuiper Broadband Satellites
May 5th, 2025Perplexity thinks Amazon’s launch cost is something like 3X higher than Starlink’s. It’s going to be interesting to see how Bezos will try to compete with Starlink, which is already fully operational with millions of customers. Via: Ars Technica: Amazon requested ULA end the official live broadcast of the launch around five minutes into the […]
Florida Passes Legislation to Ban Fluoride in Public Water Supplies
April 29th, 2025Via: USA Today: The Florida House on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would prevent local governments from adding fluoride to water supplies and take aim at labeling of plant-based products as milk, meat and eggs. The Republican-controlled House voted 88-27 to pass the bill (SB 700), which also includes a series of […]
Amazon’s Project Kuiper Launches First Full Batch of Low-Earth Orbit Satellites
April 29th, 2025Via: Tom’s Hardware: This deployment will just be the first of many, especially as the company has previously sought permission to launch 3,236 satellites to deliver internet services around the globe. It took six years for Amazon to go from applying for permits from the FCC to launching its satellites, and it will probably take […]
Large Power Outage Affects Spain, France and Portugal
April 28th, 2025Via: Telegraph: The mass power outages across Spain, Portugal and parts of France could take up to 10 hours to restore after it emerged the blackouts were probably caused by a technical fault. The power networks were in a race against time to restore electricity before sunset when solar generation is likely to cut off […]
India Suspends Indus Water Treaty Following Terrorist Attack, Threatens Pakistan’s Water Supply
April 25th, 2025Via: Al Jazeera: In tit-for-tat moves this week, India and Pakistan have entered a strategic standoff following Tuesday’s attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir, which resulted in the deaths of at least 26 people. On Wednesday, India downgraded ties with Pakistan, announcing a series of steps, the most important of which is a decision […]
