Tag: data centers

Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space

NPR “Fresh Air”  October 15, 2026 A fascinating interview with Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air. Terry Gross mentions how Elon Musk cut Ukraine off from Starlink satellites and how both Musk and Bezos want to colonize the moon, including putting data centers in space. A very high brow, stimulating […]

Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map

Futurism By Joe Wilkins Published Jul 31, 2026 3:50 PM EDT There’s data center activism, fought with Facebook groups and petitions, and then there’s data center annihilation, fought with guided missile and suicide drones. Recently, the Iranian military announced it had hit and damaged two Amazon data centers in the island country of Bahrain with a volley […]

US Navy’s retired nuclear reactors from submarines could power AI data centers, 360,000 homes

By Prabhat Ranjan Mishra Dec 25, 2025 A power company in the United States is planning to make use of retired nuclear reactors from the Navy’s aircraft carriers and submarines for a data center project proposed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The step by HGP Intelligent Energy LLC is aimed at securing the massive amounts of […]