The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.
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Jeremy Hsu
Tech Reporter
jeremy.hsu@meincmagazine.com
Jeremy Hsu is a NYC-based reporter with nearly two decades of experience exploring a wide range of topics across deep tech and AI. He has previously written for New Scientist, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Wired, Undark Magazine, and MIT Technology Review, among many other publications, about topics such as deepfakes, data centers, drones, battery tech, robotics, and GPS jamming. He also has a Master of Arts in Journalism from NYU, and a bachelor's degree from University of Pennsylvania in History and Sociology of Science, with a minor in English. When Jeremy is not digging into the latest tech trends, he is reading science fiction and history books along with sneaking in the occasional board game session.
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Everyone’s a loser in Strait of Hormuz game that simulates global crisis
The game asks players to find the least worst options for a shipping chokepoint.
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TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch
TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing.
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Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean
Panthalassa aims to test floating AI computing nodes in the Pacific in 2026.
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Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
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Anthropic secures 5 gigawatts of Amazon’s custom silicon as Claude demand soars.
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New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone
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Boston Dynamics’ robot dog now reads gauges and thermometers with Google’s AI
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Ukraine’s military robot surge aims to offset drone risks to humans
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