5-31-26 Today’s tech roundup covers AI, gadgets, and more

tech news
1

5/31/26

Today’s tech digest covers major AI investment, gadget reviews, technical writing, and entertainment news.

  1. SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build

The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.

  1. Welcome to Night Vale host Cecil Baldwin shares his tech pet

Cecil Baldwin’s résumé includes appearances on Gravity Falls, narrating the documentary Scream, Queen!

  1. Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of

A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines.

  1. Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition Review: Rock-Solid Typing

Keychron’s K2 HE Concrete Edition sounds like a cute gimmick, but as I discovered, there’s a really solid keyboard beyond the absurd choice of materials.

  1. Technical Writing in the AI Age

This isn’t totally about AI.

  1. This weekend’s two biggest movies were both directed by

The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong.

1 Like
2

5 gigawatts of “additional capacity” is such a press-release number until you get to the unsexy parts: grid interconnect queues, substation upgrades, and where all that heat actually goes.

I don’t know if SoftBank has already locked down power purchase agreements for any of this, but that’s the part that tends to turn “we’ll build data centers” into “we’ll build some data centers, eventually.”

3

€75B for data centers is nuts, and I keep wondering how much of this AI “investment” wave is just people racing to lock down power + cooling before everyone else does. Concrete keyboard sounds like a meme but ngl I kinda want to try it just for the clack.