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Data Centers Aren’t the Enemy
The growing animus to these facilities is as irrational as the campaign to stop nuclear power. Source link
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Hatred of Data Centers Is Irrational and Self-Defeating
What is to be gained by railing against them? Source link
Culture
Nicole Kidman Says Her Oscar Prep Starts With Going to Church: ‘It Centers Me’
Ask most celebrities what they do to get ready for the Oscars and they’ll tell you something about a visit to the gym, maybe getting a…
News
Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For
It also shows that many of us rise to the occasion when we are given something to do. One ubiquitous complaint about climate change is…
Business
Data Centers Are Not “Campuses”
In recent months, a particular word has begun to circulate with striking insistence in press releases across the United States. Technology…
Business
Nike to Cut 775 Jobs in Move to Consolidate U.S. Distribution Centers
Nike is cutting approximately 775 jobs as it aims to consolidate its U.S. distribution center operations across facilities in Tennessee…
Business
This L.A. startup uses SpaceX tech to cool data centers with less power and no water
As the artificial intelligence industry heats up, Karman Industries is trying to cool it down. The Signal Hill startup says it has…
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House passes bill to keep federal aid flowing to pregnancy resource centers
Ahead of the annual March for Life this week, House Republicans passed legislation that would ensure federal funding continues for…
Business
A critical climate trend just reversed—driven by crypto and data centers
After two years of declines, United States greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2025—a change driven by increased electricity use, due in…
News
Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.
And as to the jobs they bring to communities. Well, I have some bad news there too. Once construction ends, they tend to employ very few…
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Republican Study Committee's new reconciliation package centers on affordability
Lawmakers within the conservative House Republican Study Committee released a framework proposal for a second reconciliation bill this…
Business
Data centers are the buildings of our era. Do they have to be so boring?
If a single type of building could define our present time, it would undoubtedly be the data center. Underpinning the increasingly online…
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Who should pay for the power grid’s race to keep up with data centers?
The amount of electricity data centers use in the U.S. in the coming years is expected to be significant. But regular reports of proposals…
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Myanmar calls on countries to take back citizens held in crackdown on scam centers
Myanmar's military regime appealed to the international community on Sunday to take back hundreds of foreigners who have been detained in…
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Some Native Americans draw shocked response over contract to design immigration detention centers
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, whose ancestors were uprooted by the U.S. from the Great Lakes region in the 1830s, are facing outrage…
Business
DayOne Data Centers seeks US$2 billion in upsized funding deal: sources
Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers is in advanced talks to raise more than US$2 billion in an upsized Series C funding round to help…
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Pro-life pregnancy centers head to Supreme Court in battle over donor disclosure
New Jersey has been hostile to pro-life pregnancy centers for years, but when the state slapped First Choice Women's Resource Centers with…
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Supreme Court Must Stop the Left’s Assault on Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
The First Amendment rights of pro-life groups and their financial supporters are under attack. Source link
Business
Google is spending $40 billion to build 3 new data centers in Texas
Google has 44 data centers in operation or in development around the world, but as demand for AI and the need for compute capacity grows,…
News
Data centers are surging—but so are the protests against them
Across the country, data center demand and construction have been skyrocketing throughout 2025. And so has local opposition to those…
Business
Data centers have huge water and carbon impacts. Building them in these states could reduce that
When Amazon proposed building its Project Blue data center in Tucson, Arizona, the company faced intense pushback. Residents raised…
Business
BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group buys Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion
An investor group including BlackRock, Microsoft, and Nvidia is buying one of the world’s biggest data center operators with nearly 80…
Fashion
California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use. New data centers have…