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China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater (Anna Lagos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-dives-in-on-the-worlds-first-wind-p…

China Dives in on the World’s First Wind-Powered Undersea Data Center
The $226 million project uses ocean breezes and seawater to stay cool.

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mekong-sand-mining-risks-collapse-of-se-asias-largest-freshwater-lake-study-finds/

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds
Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet season flood pulse that feeds water into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake has been dwindling year by year. Experts have long pointed to upstream hydropower dams in China […]

from my link log —
First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued.
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/04/first-debris-pieces-from-indian-asat.html
saved 2019-04-24

First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued
classified military Space (spy satellites) and Missiles

#AI #AIBubble #AICircleJerk

"Environmentalist hugs tree for 72 hours for Kenya’s native forests"
#Kenya #Environment

Environmentalist hugs tree for 72 hours for Kenya’s native forests
A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native forests, many of which face extinction. Truphena Muthoni’s feat, reported by Mongabay contributing editor Lynet Otieno, is in the process of being considered for a new Guinness World Record. It […]

Long awaited: efficiency standards for electric vehicles. Good news for the energy transition.
Can't beat an e-bike, though ;)
https://carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/china-to-enforce…

China to enforce world’s first mandatory EV energy standard in 2026, capping two-tonne models at 15.1 kWh per 100 km
China will implement the world’s first mandatory electric vehicle energy consumption standard in January 2026.

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-for-country

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-posts-

Google Posts First-Ever $100B Quarter in Wake of Historic DOJ Antitrust Battles
Google surged past Wall Street’s Q3 estimates, with shares up over 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday.

Financial disclosures to investors suggest OpenAI generated ~$4.3B in revenue in H1 2025, 16% more than all of 2024, and burned $2.5B, largely due to R&D costs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-fir…

OpenAI’s First Half Results: $4.3 Billion in Sales, $2.5 Billion Cash Burn
OpenAI generated around $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about 16% more than it generated all of last year, according to financial disclosures to shareholders. The company said it burned $2.5 billion, in large part due to its research and development costs for developing ...

Indian e-commerce platform Meesho is set to launch an India IPO, seeking to raise $606M, targeting a post-issue valuation of ~$5.60B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/28/softbank-stays-in-as-meesho-…

SoftBank stays in as Meesho $606M IPO becomes India's first major e-commerce listing | TechCrunch
Meesho heads for India's first big e-commerce IPO next week.