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China has switched on what it describes as the world’s first underwater data center directly powered by offshore wind. Located off the coast of Shanghai in the Lin-gang Special Area, the Shanghai Lingang Undersea Data Center combines offshore wind power with computing infrastructure beneath the sea. The first phase is now operating at 2.3 megawatts, while the project is planned to eventually reach 24 megawatts. One of the most interesting parts isn’t the servers themselves — it’s how the facility stays cool. Instead of relying on conventional freshwater-based cooling systems, the underwater modules use the surrounding seawater as a natural heat sink. A copper-pipe heat-exchange system transfers heat away from the equipment, and developers say the approach can reduce electricity consumption by 22.8%. The project is also connected directly to offshore wind power. More than 95% of its electricity is expected to come from renewable sources, according to project officials. The first phase includes a submerged data module, with the broader project designed to expand in stages. The underwater approach also reduces the need for land and eliminates freshwater use for the cooling process, according to the project developers. It’s a very different way of thinking about data-center infrastructure. Instead of building another massive facility on land and then using large amounts of energy to keep the servers cool, engineers are taking advantage of an environment that naturally surrounds the equipment with a huge heat sink. Offshore wind provides the electricity. The ocean provides the cooling environment. And the computers operate beneath the waves. As demand for AI and other computing services continues to grow, projects like this are testing whether energy, cooling and computing can be designed together rather than treated as separate problems.

For nearly 70 years, Marine One landed on grass at the White House. It started in 1957, when Dwight Eisenhower became the first to fly by helicopter from the White House, lifting off from the lawn in a small Bell with a glass bubble cockpit. Marine squadron HMX-1 soon joined the mission, and the call sign Marine One was born: any helicopter of HMX-1 with the president aboard. Generations of helicopters flew it. The green-and-white Sea Kings arrived in the 1960s and served every administration from the Kennedy era onward. The smaller White Hawk joined in the late 1980s. Through it all, one thing never changed: there was no helipad. Before every flight, crews laid portable metal plates on the South Lawn, and Marine One set down on the grass, a few hundred feet from the Oval Office. It became one of the most recognizable sights in aviation. The new Marine One ended that. The VH-92A Patriot, the long-planned replacement for the aging Sea Kings and White Hawks, is bigger and more powerful, and its exhaust vents point downward. Landings scorched the lawn, and the problem was serious enough that the new fleet, 23 helicopters already delivered, saw only limited use at the White House. So this summer, the White House got a permanent helipad, the first in its history. It is carved from granite, carries the White House seal, and connects to the driveway by a paved path. Sikorsky, the maker of Marine One, paid for the building of the helipad, according to the White House. On September 21, Marine One lifted off from it for the first time.

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