AI & Enterprise

Meta to tap space solar power to secure round-the-clock electricity for data centres

Meta will invest in space-based solar power transmission technology to secure night-time electricity for its data centres. It signed a power capacity reservation agreement of up to 1 gigawatt with startup Overview Energy, its first major demand contract. Meta data centres used more than 18,000 gigawatt hours of electricity in 2024. Overview Energy plans to collect solar energy via satellites and send it as near-infrared beams to ground solar plants.

Games & Commerce

Study finds League of Legends may boost some cognitive skills more than turn-based card game

A study found the real-time competitive game League of Legends may have a greater effect on improving some cognitive abilities than a turn-based strategy card game. Researchers compared League of Legends with Sanguosha in a five-month trial in which 68 university students played for an hour a day, five days a week. Both groups improved across cognitive tasks, but the League of Legends group performed better on tasks requiring rapid judgment and tracking multiple targets, with differences persisting 10 weeks after play ended.