Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck multiple fuel storage facilities in Yemen’s western Hodeidah province on the 13th, killing two and wounding two, the Houthi movement said. A Yemeni security official said the strikes hit Houthi-controlled fuel depots along the Red Sea coast at Ras Issa and a fuel supply warehouse in Bajil. Hours earlier, a Saudi airstrike struck a fuel storage and distribution facility in Sabbaha west of Sanaa. The extent of damage to the targeted facilities is unclear.

美国得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的研究人员提出，可以用现有的海水淡化技术处理油田废水，用于冷却数据中心，从而减少对淡水的依赖。这项研究发表在《Water Research》期刊上。研究人员指出，脱盐方法有多种：反渗透通过压力把水压过半透膜，能效较高，但难以处理比海水更咸的水；把水加热成蒸汽再冷凝成淡水也可行，只是更耗能。一座数据中心每天最多可消耗500万加仑水，而得州部分油田产生的废水量要高出上千倍。研究负责人之一、该校科克雷尔工程学院机械工程系教授Vaibhav Bahadur表示："我们不是在等某种未来技术来替我们解决问题。"他认为，处理废水虽然有成本，但即使采用最耗能的方式，这部分成本在数据中心总能耗中也只占一小部分。他把目光投向得州西部的二叠纪盆地：那里在油气开采中每天产生约80亿加仑采出水，相当于1200个奥运标准泳池。这些水目前要长途运输后注入地下，存在诱发地震等风险，而且最早到2030年就会没有地方再埋了。他说，把这些水净化后供数据中心使用是很好的出路。研究人员还强调，地球上的淡水不到4%，可供人类安全使用的仅约0.5%；到2028年，数据中心的用水量预计将达到约330亿加仑。

Today (Oct. 13) new White House press secretary Katie Zakariah held her first briefing. The post had been vacant since Levitt left in late August. President Trump announced Zakariah’s appointment on Oct. 9. She was previously a senior communications adviser at Trump Media & Technology Group’s Truth Social and earlier served as a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson and deputy assistant secretary for public affairs.