Faulty redaction exposes Google data centers’ resource use
A report on Agate LLC’s data center in Lincoln says the facility reported peak electricity demand of 52.65 megawatts and annual water consumption of 13.299 million gallons. According to the article, three Google data centers in Nebraska had redacted these figures as trade secrets; copying the report’s text exposed them.
Copying and pasting a redacted section of a Nebraska report revealed figures on water and electricity use at Google-owned data centers.
02AI
OpenAI safety lead leaves, criticizing company culture
David Robinson, who oversaw safety reports accompanying OpenAI product launches, wrote upon leaving that AI companies have inadequate safety cultures. He called for safety expertise from other fields and new scientific work on overseeing autonomous systems. OpenAI said it is strengthening its safety measures.
David Robinson, who led OpenAI’s safety reports, left the company arguing that the AI industry lacks a safety culture suited to its pace of development.
03AI
Strata aims to run 125-billion-parameter Qwen model locally
Strata offers an installation tool for running the 125-billion-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model locally on consumer computers. The project says it expects 100–140 tokens per second on an RTX 3090; speed depends on model size and computer memory, and the largest version can drop to 7–8.5 tokens per second with 64 GB of RAM.
Open-source Strata provides setup for Windows and Linux to run the 125-billion-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer computers.
The person who reported the flaw says verification can be bypassed in Xray-core’s `pinnedPeerCertSha256` option by adding the leaf certificate to the certificate chain. According to the report, the project issued a fix that day but did not disclose the vulnerability; the researcher said in July that the fix remained incomplete in some conditions.
A researcher says they found a verification-bypass flaw in Xray-core’s certificate-pinning option and that the fix remains incomplete.
05INFRASTRUCTURE
Distributed solar supports water infrastructure in Ukraine
In Mykolaiv, Ukraine, distributed solar systems provide drinking water to some neighborhoods when the central grid is disrupted. Five solar-powered treatment plants can deliver 1.2 million liters of water daily to 250,000 people; when solar power is unavailable, the system relies on the grid.
Distributed solar power in Ukraine is helping keep water and energy services running despite disruptions to centralized infrastructure caused by attacks.
06INFRASTRUCTURE
AWS offers monthly spending limits for projects
In AWS’s new experience, users can set a monthly spending limit for projects; a project that reaches it is paused for the rest of the month. The feature is currently available to a limited number of customers. The article also notes that Google Cloud introduced a similar spending limit in July.
AWS offers a feature that pauses a project when it reaches a monthly spending limit; the writer argues such hard limits should be the default.
07DEVELOPER TOOLS
Why don’t developers use built-in platform features?
The article attributes developers’ preference for custom solutions over platform features to historical compatibility problems, habit, and the enjoyment of writing code. The author says they later realized their own solution at ClickHouse was worse than the built-in features. Whether AI coding tools will change this tendency remains uncertain.
The article examines why developers favor custom solutions over platform features, and uncertainty about how AI coding tools might affect that choice.
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