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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.

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

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.

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