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China has opened what it calls the world's first wind-powered underwater data center, anchored off its coastline with an initial capacity of twenty-four megawatts. The facility uses seawater as a natural cooling system, sidestepping one of the industry's most persistent energy problems. It's an ambitious bet that the ocean can do what air conditioning has struggled to.
On the fusion front, Commonwealth Fusion is making its physics case for a four-hundred megawatt reactor, publishing the technical arguments behind a machine that many in the energy community are watching closely. Fusion has long been the technology that's always twenty years away, but Commonwealth has been methodically narrowing that gap, and peer-reviewed confidence matters here.
And in security news, ServiceNow is disclosing a vulnerability in an API endpoint that allowed unauthorized access to customer data, though the company has been notably tight-lipped about the scope of what was exposed. That kind of opacity tends to raise more questions than it answers, and enterprise customers will be pressing for specifics in the days ahead.
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