🤖 The Hidden Crisis of AI: Can We Power the Future?

Check out this week's top 5 IE Originals videos, featuring the most fascinating stories in science, engineering, and tech.

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The Hidden Crisis of AI: Can We Power the Future?

AI is causing problems for power, and power is causing problems for AI! By this point, everyone knows the incredible amount of energy needed to power an AI model. City grids are straining to support their needs. With Donald Trump throwing billions behind building more data centers, where on Earth will we get the energy to power them all?

M24 to M2010: The U.S. Army’s Sniper Rifle Evolution

The M24 was the U.S. Army’s trusted sniper rifle for decades, prized for its precision and dependability. But as combat requirements changed, so did the need for a more advanced platform. Enter the M2010—a rifle designed to extend engagement range, increase firepower, and enhance adaptability. With a new caliber, upgraded optics, and a modernized chassis, it represented a significant leap forward in sniper technology.

America’s Secret History in Greenland

During an April 2024 flyover of Greenland, NASA scientists made an incredible discovery, uncovering the remnants of a hidden city buried deep beneath the ice. This turned out to be Camp Century. A US military research base, setup during the Cold War as a strategic location for fighting the USSR.

SWCC: Elite U.S. Navy Force That Nobody Talks About

When it comes to special operations on the water, few forces in the world can match the U.S. Navy’s Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (SWCC). These highly trained warriors are responsible for covert infiltration, extraction, and fire support missions, ensuring that Navy SEALs and other special operations forces can operate effectively in some of the most dangerous maritime environments on the planet. Fast, precise, and heavily armed, SWCC crews are the ultimate masters of high-speed warfare on the water.

The Problem With Solar Energy

Solar energy has long been touted as the solution to fossil fuel, its affordability making it accessible to all. But even as it helps reduce carbon emissions, its many, little-known flaws and limitations are rising, and quickly becoming impossible to ignore.