Ukrainian drones are producing power outages, fuel shortages and phone cuts across Crimea, twelve years after Russia’s seizure of the peninsula. What Crimea depends on, and what Ukraine’s campaign is calculated to change.
Datacentres are projected to consume around 8% of US electricity by 2030 and already exceed 20% in Ireland. A single hyperscale facility using evaporative cooling can withdraw as much water as a small town.
The phrase gets used every week without much explanation. What a “shadow fleet” actually is, the five workarounds that make it work, and why breaking it is harder than seizing individual ships.