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Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

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When Amazon Web Services paid US $650 million in March for another data center to add to its armada, the tech giant thought it was buying a steady supply of nuclear energy to power it, too. gigawatts of nuclear energy, sits adjacent to the humming data center and had been directly powering it since the center opened in 2023.

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This Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers

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Together, while experimenting with how to increase a laser’s peak power without damaging it, they invented the chirped-pulse amplification technique. Donna Strickland receives the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Both were reassembled by reflecting off the gratings.

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