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How to Choose a Data Centre Location: Five Maps, Two Permanent

AI & Data Centers

Siting a data centre means overlaying five constraint maps. Three are dissolving this decade. Two never will, and they point to a place we know.

17 Sep 202612 min read

Run the numbers

Put your own numbers in and get a sourced answer, not just an explanation. No signup, ever.

The energy-infrastructure mapEvery power plant of 50 MW or more in the WRI database, plotted and searchable by fuel and capacity.10,701power plants

The energy-loss calculatorParticle, material and thickness in. Mean loss, most probable value and straggling out, plus electron-hole pairs per micrometre in silicon.5particle types modelled

The data-centre siting toolRanks European countries by modelled electricity cost and carbon emissions, with data centres, the grid and fibre routes already on the map.30European countries covered

Inside the machines

Semiconductors & Electronics

The materials, power and physics behind the technology we depend on.

2D Semiconductor Radiation Tolerance Beats Silicon in Space

Semiconductors & Electronics

29 Aug 20267 min read

Intel Glass Core Substrate: Why It’s Not Shipping

Semiconductors & Electronics

15 Aug 20267 min read

3D Chip Stacking’s Thermal Limit Splits Cache From Cores

Semiconductors & Electronics

25 Jul 20267 min read

A deeper understanding

Quantum Physics

Why the LHC Is Colder Than Outer Space, On Purpose

Particle Physics

5 Sep 20266 min read

Quantum Error Correction Threshold Theorem: Why Scale Helps

Quantum Physics

22 Aug 20267 min read

One-Dimensional Anyons: Breaking Statistics Without Braiding

Quantum Physics

8 Aug 20267 min read

Primordial Black Hole Candidate S251112cm: Real or Noise?

Cosmology & Astrophysics

1 Aug 20267 min read