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A federal watchdog is raising serious alarms about electricity prices in the PJM Interconnection, the largest power grid region in the United States. Monitoring Analytics says AI data center demand has driven an irreversible seventy-six percent spike in electricity costs, and is now calling on tech giants to fund their own power infrastructure rather than passing those costs onto consumers and utilities.
Meanwhile, in the spirit of making old hardware do new tricks, a 3D printing enthusiast has found a genuinely clever second life for a jailbroken Nintendo Switch. By running Klipper firmware through the console's quad-core processor, they slashed print times by ninety percent — dropping a standard benchmark print from ninety minutes to under nine. It's a reminder that capable hardware often outlives its original purpose.
And on the chip battlefield, Intel and AMD are scrapping for dominance in the mid-range gaming CPU space. Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh, the Core Ultra five two fifty K Plus, is finally mounting a credible challenge to AMD's Ryzen five seventy-six hundred X3D, though AMD's three-dimensional cache architecture still holds meaningful advantages across most gaming workloads.
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