04 April 2026
Jesus Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Happy Easter!
Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways
An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour.
In Wuhan, a city in central China where Baidu has deployed hundreds of its Apollo Go self-driving taxis, people on Chinese social media reported witnessing the cars suddenly malfunction and stop operating. Photos and videos shared online show the Baidu cars halted on busy highways, often in the fast lane.
And yet we are told that self driving cars are the future. Not my future - ever!
02 April 2026
AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
Data centres built to power Artificial Intelligence produce so much heat that they can raise the surface temperature of the land around them by several degrees – creating so-called data centre heat islands that may already be affecting up to 340 million people.
The number of data centres built around the world is forecast to rise enormously. JLL, a real estate company, estimates that data centre capacity will double between 2025 and 2030 – with AI expected to account for half that demand.
Andrea Marinoni at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues saw that the amount of energy needed to run a data centre had been steadily increasing of late and was likely to “explode” in the coming years, so wanted to quantify the impact.
Meanwhile, in other news: we're all being told to travel less, eat less meat, turn down our heating / air conditioning, etc... We do our bit, while big tech just burns the planet! Grrrr!


