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Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling – just as US data centers move in

The Guardian

Tue 16 Dec 2025 08.00 ESTLast modified on Tue 16 Dec 2025 08.02 EST The sign outside Tom Hermes's farmyard in Perkins Township in Ohio, a short drive south of the shores of Lake Erie, proudly claims that his family have farmed the land here since 1900. Today, he raises 130 head of cattle and grows corn, wheat, grass and soybeans on 1,200 acres of land. For his family, his animals and wider business, water is life. So when, in May 2024, the Texas-based Aligned Data Centers broke ground on its NEO-01, four-building, 200,000 sq ft data center on a brownfield site that abuts farmland that Hermes rents, he was concerned. "We have city water here. That's going to reduce the pressure if they are sucking all the water," he says of the data center.


Incredible footage shows the immense power of NASA's Orion rocket engines

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Incredible footage released by NASA has revealed the space agency's attempts to push its Orion spacecraft's engines to their limits, ahead of a planned 2024 manned mission to the moon dubbed Artemis. In the latest of an on-going series of tests, engineers conducted a continuous 12-minute firing of Orion's propulsion system. Orion is a capsule designed to carry humans to the moon and bring them back safely and the test simulated an abort-to-orbit scenario, in which the second stage of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket fails. Maggot leaps itself into the air'to catapult to safety' Samsung unveils Galaxy Note10's S Pen that offers greater control Huawei unveils its new'Harmony' phone operating system'Choose truth over facts!' Biden flubs line in Iowa speech Incredible footage released by NASA has revealed the space agency's attempts to push its Orion spacecraft's engines to their limits (pictured), ahead of a planned 2024 manned mission to the moon dubbed Artemis Under ideal conditions the SLS rocket would blast the Orion spacecraft - which will carry astronauts and their supplies - into orbit around the moon. Part of this process involves the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) firing, blasting the Orion capsule away from the rocket behind it.