Infrastructure

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Infrastructure is composed of public and private physical structures such as roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, and telecommunications.

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US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September (www.wired.com)

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Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor (arstechnica.com)

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The world’s first wind-powered underwater data center has launched (www.theguardian.com)

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Percentage of global population using safe drinking water (2025) (www.voronoiapp.com)

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U.S. cities with the highest index score for a bike-friendly lifestyle (2025) (cdn.statcdn.com)

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Top 15 longest highways on Earth (2026) (dataexplained.com)

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We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See (2026) (www.youtube.com)

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World’s largest electricity consumers by total demand and per person demand (2026) (www.visualcapitalist.com)

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Every building to hold the title of world’s tallest since 1909 (www.visualcapitalist.com)

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Estimated share of global web traffic generated by humans and bots (2018-2025) (cdn.statcdn.com)

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Volume of global internet traffic by economic region (2020 vs. 2025) (cdn.statcdn.com)

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Number of data centers per country (May 2026) (cdn.statcdn.com)

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NASA Details Its Plan to Build a Lunar Base at the Moon’s South Pole (www.wired.com)

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US Space Force says SpaceX won a $4.16B contract to build a space-based tracking network as part of President Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield (www.bloomberg.com)

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Monthly spending on data center construction in the US (2014-2026) (ourworldindata.org)

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Countries with the largest number of nuclear reactors currently under construction and planned (2026) (cdn.statcdn.com)

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Largest satellite internet constellations currently being deployed worldwide (2026) (cdn.statcdn.com)

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Number of Starlink/OneWeb satellites in Earth orbit, by launch year (2019-2026) (cdn.statcdn.com)

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Worldwide market share of leading cloud infrastructure service providers (Q1 2026) (cdn.statcdn.com)

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Global electricity mix by source (2025) (www.visualcapitalist.com)

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Amount of power and water needed for different types of data centers annually (cdn-media.kontinentalist.com)

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You can use this interactive map to see if there’s a data center near you or if there are any in the works (trackpolicy.org)

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Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, energy minister says, as US blockade pushes island to brink (www.theguardian.com)

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AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an “agreement in principle” to form a joint venture that aims to end wireless dead zones in the US, without giving many details (www.theverge.com)

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Data centers now consume 6% of the electricity in the US and UK; AI’s global energy consumption is up 15% globally in 2 years (www.theguardian.com)

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