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How to Feed a Data Centre 24/7: Drill Into 460-Degree Rock

Jul 23, 2026

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How to Feed a Data Centre 24/7: Drill Into 460-Degree Rock

Fervo drilled its hardest well yet into 460-degree rock in 21 days and named Utah for the first data centres built to run on always-on geothermal heat.

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They Broke a 165-Year-Old Law of Physics and Made Heat Programmable

Jul 16, 2026

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They Broke a 165-Year-Old Law of Physics and Made Heat Programmable

An Osaka-led team broke Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, the 1860 rule that a surface must emit heat exactly as it absorbs it. Their surface steers warmth, switches on and off, and holds its setting with no power. Heat that behaves like memory.

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