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Det kanadensiska samtalet om digital suveränitet är i full fart. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives skriver under rubriken "Every data centre is a U.S military base".
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is…

Future of Privacy Forum Appoints Matthew Reisman as Vice President of U.S. Policy
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-appoints-matthew-reisman-as-vice-president-of-u-s-policy/

Depaywalled link: http://archive.today/2025.11.06-203144/https://www.afr.com/technology/google-plans-a-powerful-ai-data-centre-on-tiny-australian-outpost-20251107-p5n8fk

NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5 GW of clean energy contracts from Meta (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/next…

British Home Office plans to immediately begin seizing asylum seekers’ mobile phones and sim cards without the need for an arrest
have been condemned by a solicitor and anti-torture campaigners.
People who arrive by small boat and are sent to Manston processing centre in Kent will from Monday be eligible for searches for electronic devices, a minister has said,
with technology on site to download data.
Officials will be allowed to search inside the mouths of detainees…

Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

AI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn.  Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."

AI and the railway mania
The AI bubble continues. The Magnificent Seven of tech media continue to drive the US stock market, along with the AI companies. The ten largest US companies by stock market value, holdin…

Malaysia's Johor state, which has approved 51 data centre projects as of November, stops approvals for new low-tier data centers citing high water consumption (The Star)
https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2025/11/26/no-more-…

‘No more low-tier data centre approvals in Johor’
JOHOR will stop approving applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centres due to their massive water consumption, which can reach up to 50 million litres a day.

Just completed the disassembly of another two Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchanges, which are now in a truck on their way to the Telecom Museum Dresden (Fernmeldemuseum Dresden). Largest time sink was untangling the hundreds of cables (mostly with proprietary Siemens connectors).. #retronetworking #telecom

"Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rpy7en

'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'
"It's fantastic because it's eco-friendly...We're not burning any gases," says Terrence Bridges.

India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…

India notifies its first data protection law to strengthen privacy, security
India has officially notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establishing a framework for data processing, protection, and governance. These rules, enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, introduce verifiable consent, breach notification mandates, and data retention limits. They aim to enhance individual control and foster safer digital ecosystems.

Scotland "..there are 17 live planning applications for hyperscale data centres across the country, with more in the pipeline; enough to increase energy demand by 4,450-4,950 megawatts."
Scottish government face calls for data centre moratorium | Morning Star
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Google plans to invest $10B to build a new 1GW data center cluster near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, India, with operations expected to begin by July 2028 (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/snippets/google-to-invest-10-bn-in…

Google to invest $10 Bn in Visakhapatnam data centre cluster
Google is planning a massive push in India by investing $10 billion to build a new data centre cluster in and around Visakhapatnam. The project will include three campuses. Snippets

The JWST-NIRCam View of Sagittarius C. III. The Extinction Curve
Luc\'ia Bravo Ferres, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Rainer Sch\"odel, Rub\'en Fedriani, Adam Ginsburg, Samuel Crowe, Jonathan C. Tan, Morten Andersen, Joseph Armstrong, Yu Cheng, Zhi-Yun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10749

The JWST-NIRCam View of Sagittarius C. III. The Extinction Curve
Determining the infrared extinction curve towards the Galactic centre is crucial for accurately correcting observed data and deriving the underlying stellar populations. However, extinction curves reported in the literature often show discrepancies. We aim to derive the infrared extinction curve towards the Galactic centre based on JWST-NIRCam data for the first time, using observations of the Sagittarius C region in the 1-5 $μ$m range. We determined extinction ratios using two different metho…

Shares of Japanese optical fiber maker Fujikura are up ~171% YTD, outpacing the Nikkei's 22% and lifting its market cap to $33B amid the AI data center boom (Junko Fujita/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

A study of 80 known pulsars at 185 MHz using MWA incoherent drift-scan observations
Ting Yu, Hongyu Gong, Zhifu Gao, Zhongli Zhang, Zhigang Wen, Yujie Wang, Tao An
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09046

A study of 80 known pulsars at 185 MHz using MWA incoherent drift-scan observations
A systematic study of 80 known pulsars observed at 185 MHz has been conducted using archival incoherent-sum data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The dataset comprises 48 drift-scan observations from the MWA Voltage Capture System, covering approximately 30,000 square degrees of sky with sensitivities reaching about 8 mJy in the deepest regions. An optimized PRESTO-based search pipeline was deployed on the China SKA Regional Centre infrastructure. This enabled the detection of 80 known…

"UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Water #Technology

Combination of searches for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 13 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07527 https://…

Combination of searches for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 13 TeV
This paper presents a combination of searches for the nonresonant production of Higgs boson pairs (HH) in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data set was collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC from 2016 to 2018 and corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. The observed (expected) upper limit on the inclusive HH production cross section relative to the standard model (SM) prediction is found to be 3.5 (2.5). Assuming all other Higgs boson …

GALACTICNUCLEUS: A high angular resolution JHKs imaging survey of the Galactic centre
\'A. Mart\'inez Arranz, R. Sch\"odel, H. Bouy, F. Nogueras-Lara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11966

GALACTICNUCLEUS: A high angular resolution JHKs imaging survey of the Galactic centre
The center of the Milky Way is a unique environment of great astrophysical interest, but its extreme crowding and extinction make it difficult to study. The GALACTICNUCLEUS survey, a high-angular-resolution near-infrared imaging program, was designed to overcome these challenges. We present the methodology and first results of its second data release, which includes major improvements in reduction, calibration, and analysis, providing deeper photometry, improved astrometry, and high-precision p…

Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/google-opens-new-ai-engin…

Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/technology/oliver-curt

Firmus Technologies: Oliver Curtis’ AI infrastructure start-up triples valuation to $6 billion
The AI start-up has tripled its valuation in two months, raising a further $500 million from investors to bankroll its massive data centre developments. 

Is Liller 1 a building block of the Galactic bulge? - Evidence with APOGEE
Anna Liptrott, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Andrew C. Mason, Sebastian Kamann, Borja Anguiano, Roger E. Cohen, Jos\'e G. Fern\'andez-Trincado, Danny Horta, Steven R. Majewski, Dante Minniti, David M. Nataf, Michael J. W. O'Connor, Dominic Wearne
https://arxiv.or…

Is Liller 1 a building block of the Galactic bulge? - Evidence with APOGEE
Liller 1 is a stellar system orbiting within the inner 0.8kpc of the Galactic centre, characterised by a wide spread in age and metallicity, indicating a high mass. Liller 1 has been proposed to be a major contributor to the stellar mass of the Galactic bulge, yet its origin is subject to debate. We employ Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) to test scenarios proposed to explain the nature of Liller 1. Using a rando…