Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto. The European Parliament has approved a decision to mandate that all electronic devices sold in the EU must have a universal charging port in the coming years.

This review highlights new developments in cardiac implantable electronic devices, with an emphasis on pacemakers, newer modes of pacing, and implantable cardioverter–defibrillators.

More than 50 percent of all electronic device failures are heat-related, and data centers, which today consume 3.7% of total U.S. power demand, are predicted to reach 10% by 2029.