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A proposed hyperscale data center in Utah is drawing scrutiny for more than just its power demands. Researchers and environmentalists warn the facility could generate enough waste heat to worsen conditions near the already-stressed Great Salt Lake, raising hard questions about where the true cost of cloud infrastructure actually lands.
Shifting to crypto markets, XRP is outpacing both bitcoin and ether in trading volume on South Korea's major exchanges, topping the charts on Upbit and running a close second on Bithumb. Korean retail dominance in XRP is a pattern traders have learned to watch — historically, it has signaled sharper price moves ahead for the token.
And on a story with real human weight, more than seventy million warning messages have now been sent to people who searched for child sexual abuse material online. The messages, which flag the illegality of the searches and point toward help resources, represent one of the more quietly significant interventions in how platforms and authorities try to interrupt harmful behavior before it escalates.
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