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Title: Google Plans Secret AI Military Outpost on Tiny Island Overrun By
Crabs

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/06/1924...

An anonymous reader shares a report: On Wednesday, Reuters reported that
Google is planning to build a large AI data center on Christmas Island, a 52-
square-mile Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, following a cloud
computing deal with Australia's military. The previously undisclosed project
will reportedly position advanced AI infrastructure a mere 220 miles south of
Indonesia at a location military strategists consider critical for monitoring
Chinese naval activity. Aside from its strategic military position, the
island is famous for its massive annual crab migration, where over 100
million of red crabs make their way across the island to spawn in the ocean.
That's notable because the tech giant has applied for environmental approvals
to build a subsea cable connecting the 135-square-kilometer island to Darwin,
where US Marines are stationed for six months each year. [...] Christmas
Island's annual crab migration is a natural phenomenon that Sir David
Attenborough reportedly once described as one of his greatest TV moments when
he visited the site in 1990. Every year, millions of crabs emerge from the
forest and swarm across roads, streams, rocks, and beaches to reach the
ocean, where each female can produce up to 100,000 eggs. The tiny baby crabs
that survive take about nine days to march back inland to the safety of the
plateau.

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