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The AI data center boom has drawn fresh comparisons to the railroad frenzy of the eighteen seventies, and analysts are now revisiting whether the infrastructure buildout will pay off or end in a familiar bust. The argument isn't that AI lacks value — it's that the people building the rails don't always capture the reward.
From infrastructure to preservation, scientists have successfully rewarmed pig kidneys that had been stored at negative one hundred fifty degrees Celsius for up to a year, restoring function well enough to transplant. The organs were held in a glass-like frozen state, and researchers say the results bring viable long-term organ banking meaningfully closer to reality.
And in a story that cuts closer to home, a roof collapse at a private school in Peshawar, Pakistan has killed at least twenty nine people, including twenty eight students and one teacher. The Al-Khair Education Center disaster is a reminder that for much of the world, the most urgent infrastructure failures have nothing to do with data centers or submarines.
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