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A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 (Yevgeniya Mikhailidi/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn…

Starting gun for Central Asia data center race triggered
Saudi-backed Uzbek project to open year-end; Nvidia-supported Kazakh campus takes shape

Apples neues Developer Center: Warum die Wahl auf Berlin fiel
Apple eröffnet in Berlin sein erstes europäisches Developer Center. Apple-VP Susan Prescott erläutert, warum es Berlin wurde, und wozu das Center noch dient.

Apples neues Developer Center: Warum die Wahl auf Berlin fiel
Apple eröffnet in Berlin sein erstes europäisches Developer Center. Apple-VP Susan Prescott erläutert, warum es Berlin wurde, und wozu das Center noch dient.

➡️ Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)

dbpedia_country: Person-Country Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and countries of the world, as extracted from Wikipedia via the DBpedia project. Countries include former countries, empires, kingdoms, and some country-like entities.
This network has 592414 nodes and 637134 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Waren gestern in einem asiatischen Restaurant in #Graz.
Deren Weinkühler war auf #Farenheit konfiguriert, was mich wegen der geringen Verbreitung dieser obskuren Skala doch erstaunt hat:

Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions (David Phelan/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2

Apple To Open Europe’s First Developer Center In Berlin Ahead Of WWDC 2026
Later this year, Apple will open its first-ever European Developer Center. Here’s what it’s all about.

Erstes in Europa: Apple plant Developer Center in Berlin
Apple plant sein erstes Developer Center in Europa in Berlin-Mitte. Es soll für Präsenzveranstaltungen und persönliche Termine genutzt werden.
https://www.

Erstes in Europa: Apple plant Developer Center in Berlin
Apple plant sein erstes Developer Center in Europa in Berlin-Mitte. Es soll für Präsenzveranstaltungen und persönliche Termine genutzt werden.

Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until audits are performed; projects representing 474 GW are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand (The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit…

Texas data center projects must stop until state audits them
On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.

Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/942296/google-water-commitments-data-centers…

AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix
Google laid out its commitments to replenishing watersheds and being transparent about data center water usage as it aims to set the tone for the industry.

Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/regular-people-data-cente…

The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
All over the United States, ordinary people are risking their freedom to take a stand against data centers in their communities.