Solar panels now sell for around $0.12 per watt, down from $5–$6 at the turn of the millennium, according to the FT. Ember’s Dave Jones calls them “offensively cheap.” From 2030 onward, energy could become the most significant bottleneck in data center expansion. Solar power is one of the best and most cost-effective energy sources. As long as fusion energy is not yet a viable option, solar power should be expanded on a massive scale. This is because the prices for energy storage are also falling rapidly.

Solaris is an interface world model: an interactive, real-time video model that can create and render an interface for you. But most importantly, Solaris has this awe-like quality. Everything you do with it feels impossibly close to what computers should have always been.

Solar panel makers are pressing forward with efforts to cut the amount of silver in their products, threatening a major source of demand that helped propel the precious metal to record highs.