Technology
Three stories a day on the technology that changes how businesses run, chosen for what they mean rather than how loud they are.
Technology at The First Click is not a gadget page. Each weekday at 11 we choose three stories for the reader who has to decide something because of them: the chief technology officer sizing a refresh, the founder reading a funding round for what it says about the market, the security lead who needs to know which assumption just expired. The beats are AI and machine learning, enterprise software, cybersecurity, semiconductors, and startups and funding. Every story is summarised in our own words and links to the publisher who reported it. Beneath the day’s lead sits an editor’s note: why we chose it over the alternatives, and what to watch next. On Fridays the funniest of the week gathers in pubLOL, and every second Sunday a Ctrl+Shift column takes one technology question at length.
Every story we have kept in Technology, newest first. Headlines link to the publisher; the tags below narrow the list.
How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
AI’s water consumption is a growing concern, but its impact depends heavily on location and cooling technology. Data centers use relatively little water nationally, yet can significantly strain supplies in drought-prone regions.
Editor's noteHow much water AI uses depends almost entirely on where the data centre sits and how it is cooled, and that is why it led Technology: nationally the number is small, in the wrong county it is everything. An average hides a drought. If you site compute or buy it, the water question is a location question, answered by postcode.
SpaceX to use NVIDIA GPUs for its Starmind project — Here's what they'll face in space
SpaceX plans to use NVIDIA’s Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs in its proposed Starmind orbital AI data-center network, aiming to process AI workloads in space using solar-powered satellites connected through Starlink laser communications.
