Cooling with seawater reduces power consumption by >1/5 compared to land-based data centers.
Underwater data centers create some risks for marine ecosystems by disturbing sediments and heating the seawater. Those risks are being studied for mitigation: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j.... 🌎
San Jose City Hall Falcons: One of the first lessons for fledglings is prey transfer. A parent holding prey flies in front; the juvenile chases, flies under the parent, flips over, and reaches up with talons to grab the prey.
Next lesson, the parent hovers high up and drops the prey,...
...and created the world’s first wind-powered underwater data center. It's submerged 10 meters below the ocean surface and powered by an offshore wind farm. Liquid in a contained, closed-loop pipe system is cooled by the cold ocean, then used to cool servers; no liquid or pollution enters the ocean.
Innovation only happens within constraints. Trump gave tech companies no constraints on data centers' air pollution, water pollution, and water and public lands use. What did we get? Last century's data centers, but on a massive, massively polluting scale.
China put constraints on data centers...
Trump's nativism does not extend to American bison. Instead, native bison are being pushed off public lands in favor of non-native cattle.
Public grazing land opened up under a Biden-era order to “restore wild and healthy populations of American bison.” Trump's Interior Department has proposed...
Hellgate Ospreys: Have I mentioned how much Clark likes incubating the eggs? When Iris won't give him some egg time, Clark decides to "incubate" Iris. Iris is not amused.
The 3 eggs are expected to hatch between June 10 and 20. Watch nest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qvY.... #birds
...new grazing rules that deny tribal bison access to federal land in favor of “production-oriented livestock." The rules apply to all BLM land, with no exclusion for tribes. Tribes were not consulted; livestock lobbyists obviously were: insideclimatenews.org/news/0506202...? Lawsuits in progress. 🌎
forcing the youngster to perform a rapid dive—stoop—to catch it. The stoop is critical to the next lesson: catching prey.
Yesterday, Jet, the last to fledge, likely became the first to catch prey in a midair transfer (video by @skh4birdies.bsky.social): www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLh1.... #birds
