🥳 @small-tech/syswide-cas v7.0.2 released
Enables Node.js to use custom Certificate Authorities (CAs) alongside the bundled root CAs.
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/syswide-cas#readme
• Drops legacy Node support
• Is now ESM
• Improved code quality
•…
Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/three-andean-condor-chicks-hatch-in-colombia-as-species-nears-local-extinction/<…
Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o
🤦🏾 Cuba blames online news site ‘elTOQUE’ for the country’s economic chaos
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-02/cuba-blames-online-news-site-eltoque-for-the-countrys-economic-chaos.html
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
Analysis: of the 8,808 global data centers in October 2025, ~7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in areas above 27C (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/
Elizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/busines
Ford plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford-is-starting-a-bat…