⚡️ How green is the AI buildout, really
IEA’s latest snapshot says data centers will soak up about $580B of spend this year - roughly $40B more than finding new oil.
The real question is how much of that surge gets powered by renewables… or by whatever’s cheapest, right now.
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🏗️ Warburg-backed PDG plants a $700M AI campus in Korea
Princeton Digital Group is entering South Korea with a $700M data center build, pitched as fuel for the country’s AI push.
A first beachhead-and if demand stays wild-expect more racks, more watts, more GPUs.
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📚 Grokipedia gets fact-checked, and… ouch
Musk’s Wikipedia rival mimics the look, but PolitiFact and Al Jazeera flag shaky citations and near–copy-pasta in places.
Ambition is huge, sure, yet reliability is the whole ballgame-without it, it’s a trivia night with no answer key.
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🛰️ AI helps simulate 100B Milky Way stars
RIKEN researchers blended deep learning with high-res physics to model the galaxy at bonkers scale, hundreds of times faster.
It learns supernova feedback patterns so the sim doesn’t crawl-oddly elegant, like teaching space to autocomplete.
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🛡️ AI-powered cyberattacks are not sci-fi anymore
Governments and operators are leaning on AI to probe, phish, and pivot-faster than defenders can sip their coffee.
Bleak, but clarifying: the threat model just upgraded itself and didn’t even ask permission.
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💰 Sanctions era mints a new AI billionaire
Bloomberg profiles Chen Tianshi, whose chip venture rode China’s self-sufficiency wave to a reported $23B fortune.
A reminder that geopolitics can be a growth hack, albeit a messy one. Markets, meet megawatts.
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