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Business · Nov 8, 2026AMD: data centres at the heart of its strategy, without abandoning the PCData centres accounted for nearly 64% of AMD’s revenue in the third quarter of 2026. This figure covers far more than just artificial intelligence chips, while its PC, gaming and embedded businesses are following different trajectories.

A server room at BalticServers, an illustrative photograph.

Environment · Nov 8, 2026Water cuts in Batam raise questions about data centre expansionWater cuts in Batam have prompted protests outside a park housing data centres. Authorities cite drought and a breakdown, while residents blame the new infrastructure: the available evidence does not demonstrate that it was solely responsible.

Server equipment in a rack, illustrative photograph.

Technology · Nov 6, 2026OpenAI and Google’s TPUs: what diversifying its chips would meanThe press has reported a plan to buy Google chips. To understand what is at stake, it is necessary to distinguish between a contract, access to computing power and actual performance.

Consumer processors and graphics card on a table, illustrative photograph.

Technology · Nov 6, 2026Vera Rubin: what memory bandwidths really tell us about performanceHBM4 memory, NVLink and application speed: three concepts to distinguish when understanding the specifications of Nvidia’s platform.

Small mauve flowers and wild vegetation among rocks in Trabzon, Turkey.

Nature and environment · Nov 1, 2026Edible wild plants: learn to look before you pickA botanical walk in the Gard invites visitors to rediscover wild plants. But knowing a culinary use, identifying a species and having the right to pick it are three different things.

An aisle between server racks in a data centre.

AI · Nov 1, 2026OpenAI and Google’s TPUs: diversification is also a software challengeThe press has reported a plan to buy Google chips. An OpenAI job listing, meanwhile, reveals a very concrete project: adapting its models to another computing architecture.

Aisle between server racks in a data centre, illustrative photograph.

Start-ups · Nov 1, 2026Luxor bets on AI: what Bitcoin mining can bring to the tableThe company has announced a $16 million financing round to expand its computing services. Its claimed advantage lies in equipment, energy and contracts—not in magically turning mining machines into something else.

Europol headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands

Europe · Oct 29, 2026Far-right terrorism in the EU: five attacks in 2025, a more diffuse threatEuropol recorded five attacks classified as far-right in the European Union in 2025, four of them foiled. Behind this low figure, transnational networks and online radicalisation make the threat harder to measure.

Rows of servers in the BalticServers data centre, photographed in March 2013

Politics · Oct 28, 2026Atlanta: Kelsea Bond’s task force on data centres remains on holdKelsea Bond wants to regulate the growth of data centres in Atlanta. But, as of 28 October, the announced task force has not yet been created: its resolution remains held up at city council.

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Science · Oct 28, 2026Nostalgia: preferring 1975 does not prove life was betterA poll about the era in which people would like to have been born and the memory of an experience are not telling the same story. Here’s how to tell them apart.

Blue-lit server racks in a data centre. Photo taken in 2013 at BalticServers’ premises, unrelated to the Equinix site.

Innovation · Oct 28, 2026Saint-Denis: how a data centre’s heat supplies a neighbourhoodIn Saint-Denis, waste heat from a data centre feeds into an urban heating network. How does the system work, what does it cost, and could it be replicated elsewhere?

Pencil resting on an open notebook with blank pages, an illustrative photograph of writing, unrelated to the participants in the Parkinson’s study.

Health · Oct 27, 2026Parkinson’s: what AI looks for in a pen’s movementsThe line drawn is only part of the information. The pen’s speed, pressure and changes of direction also provide information about the movement.