Daily Archives: Mar 18, 2026

Charles Mitchell

Surprising Stalemate: AI Data Centers Worth Billions Sit Idle

Two cavernous buildings in Santa Clara, California together spanning nearly one million square feet stand silent. Their racks of servers have yet to be installed, their cooling systems idle, and their lights dim. The reason is not due to a lack of demand for AI computing power, but something...
James Thompson

NASA’s Multi-Mission Imaging Reveals 3I/ATLAS’s Alien Chemistry

Can an object older than the Sun itself hold the key to knowing how planets form across the galaxy? It would appear that NASA's newly released images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS do just that: a combination of engineering ingenuity and state-of-the-art science to study a visitor from beyond...
Charles Mitchell

Faulty Wire Exposed as Technical Trigger in Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Could one mislabeled wire really bring down a major US bridge? Investigators say yes-and the chain of engineering failures that followed reads like a textbook case in how small oversights can cascade into catastrophic infrastructure loss. 1. The Misplaced Label That Started It All The US NTSB determined that an improperly...