Space Weather Is an Infrastructure Risk Nobody Budgets For
A sufficiently large solar storm would damage power grids and satellites. The engineering fixes are known and mostly unfunded.
Tag: infrastructure
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Data Centres Are Being Built Near You, and People Are Objecting
Compute demand is driving construction at unprecedented scale, and local opposition is growing.
Desalination Got Cheap Enough to Change the Map
Turning seawater into drinking water used to be a last resort. Falling energy costs are making it a planning option.
What Comes After 5G, and Why It Is Less About Speed
The next generation of mobile networks is being defined now. The goals have shifted from faster downloads to something else.
Charging Infrastructure Is a Planning Problem, Not a Technology Problem
Fast chargers exist and work. Getting them installed where people actually need them is the hard part.
Internet From Orbit Changed Who Gets Connected
Low-orbit constellations made broadband available anywhere with a view of the sky. The consequences reach further than rural connectivity.
Edge Computing Explained Without the Buzzwords
Processing data near where it is created instead of sending it to a distant data centre. The reasons are concrete.
Data Centres in Orbit: The Idea and the Obstacles
Abundant solar power and no land use make orbital computing sound attractive. Cooling in vacuum is where the argument gets difficult.