Some companies are turning to fossil fuels to power their data centers as countries around the world scramble to meet rising energy demands amid the AI boom (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-energy-supply-data-centers/
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
Tyler Smith focused on controlling what he can control with extension looming https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-focused-on-controlling-what-he-can-control-with-extension-looming
"Among Republicans younger than 45, the decline is particularly glaring: 61% say the country is headed in the wrong direction, a spike of 30 percentage points since June, the last time the question was asked."
https://apnews.com/article/poll-r…
Ukrainian Forces counter Russian advances amid intense clashes on Zaporizhzhia front: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/ukrainian-forces-counter-russian-advances.html
Google rolls out AI Mode to 180 countries and territories in English, after testing in the US, UK, and India, and plans to add more languages and regions "soon" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/21/google-ai-mode-countries-agentic/
Tyler Smith focused on controlling what he can control with extension looming https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-focused-on-controlling-what-he-can-control-with-extension-looming
Vantage Data Centers plans to spend $25B to build a 1.4 GW data center campus in Shackelford County, Texas, the largest in its global portfolio (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/vantage-data-centers-plans-25-billion-…