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Ireland is facing a reckoning with its data center boom. In two thousand twenty five, server farms consumed twenty-three percent of the country's total electricity — nearly matching the combined usage of every household in the nation. That figure rose ten percent in a single year, while residential consumption barely budged two percent. It's a stark illustration of what it costs to keep the cloud running.
That energy appetite connects directly to the next conversation: the sticker shock hitting companies that bet big on AI. Early adoption felt frictionless — free tiers, subsidized pilots, easy wins. Now the invoices are arriving, and executives are discovering that scaling AI in production is a fundamentally different financial equation than experimenting with it. The easy part, it turns out, was just the beginning.
And in an unexpected corner of the tech world, the Sega Dreamcast is still getting love from the Linux kernel. Updates to the legendary console's input subsystem were merged into Linux seven point two release candidate three over the weekend. It's a small but telling reminder that in open source, beloved hardware rarely truly dies — even as older computing architectures quietly disappear from the codebase.
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