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The year in charts

30 December 2025 at 06:00
We at Rest of World love a good chart. So much so that this year we launched Charts, a page dedicated to preserving all the original charts we put into...

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Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout

19 December 2025 at 06:00
Countries around the world are investing millions of dollars in building data centers to meet the growing demand for generative artificial intelligence, while also storing data within their own borders....

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Law student and activist Rodrigo Vallejos stands in front of Google's data center water storage tanks in the Quilicura district. The data center extracts water from the district's underground wells. Vallejos has been monitoring data centers in Santiago's metropolitan area for the past two years.

H-1B to Plan B: India’s top tech talent looks beyond the U.S.

1 December 2025 at 06:00
In recent months, there has been frenzied debate about whether the U.S. government’s unfavorable outlook toward immigration would curtail foreign student enrollments in U.S. universities and scale back overseas talent...

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A welcome signage at the Google Ananta campus in Bengaluru, India, 2025.

ChatGPT turns 3

26 November 2025 at 06:00
Three years ago, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Hot on the heels of its viral image generator DALL-E, the Sam Altman-helmed company’s chatbot quickly attracted millions of visitors...

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