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An analysis of 30 US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details (Natalie Kainz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/dat

How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans
A review of over 30 data center proposals across 14 states found that in most cases, officials signed NDAs and worked with what appeared to be shell companies.

Reporting on the “data center boom” in the state of Oregon,
Rolling Stonetells the story of Jim Doherty, a cattle rancher and former county commissioner of Morrow, in eastern Oregon.
Doherty’s story began when he noticed a rise in bizarre medical conditions among the county’s 45,000 residents,
linked to toxins in the local water.
Working with the county health office, the rancher-turned-official began a survey of 70 wells throughout his jurisdiction
— 68 of which…

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers
A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.

"In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster"
#Batteries #Energy
https://www.

In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster
Aligned Data Centers will pay to build a 31-megawatt battery, an early example of how AI developers can move fast if they’re willing to be flexible.

We've reached the point in the evolution of cyber scamming where military units are blowing up buildings to stop the digital crimes.
Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
https://apnews.com/artic…

Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
A Thai regional army commander say that the number of people fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand after Myanmar’s military shut down a major online scam center has slowed to a trickle. The news on Tuesday came after more than 1,500 people had left in the past week. The KK Park site was identified by Thai officials and independent experts as housing a major cybercrime operation. It was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October as part of operations starting in early September to suppress cross-bor…

Amazon opens Project Rainier, an $11B AI data center on 1,200 acres in Indiana that trains and runs Anthropic's AI models using 500K Amazon Trainium 2 chips (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/amazon-opens-11-bi…

Amazon opens $11 billion AI data center in rural Indiana as rivals race to break ground
Amazon has opened a date center on 1,200 acres of land in Indiana dedicated to training and running models from Anthropic.

Wrote a paradox flaw today …
Network confused: #rpg

Ragnow fails physical, won't join Lions this season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47138093/center-frank-ragnow-fails-physical-not-rejoin-lions

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
#resist #NarcissistInChief

Trump's Kennedy Center Honors went... comically poorly. Alexandra Petri reporting at the event.
✅ Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors - The Atlantic
https://w…

Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors
The president and I both got our heart’s desire. But something felt wrong.

Musician Chuck Redd called off the annual Christmas Eve performances after the Kennedy Center board added Trump’s name to the performing arts center.
Kennedy Center's MAGA Chief Threatens Legal Action Against Redd Over Canceled Christmas Concert
https://www.nytimes.…

Kennedy Center Chief Threatens Legal Action Over Canceled Christmas Concert
The musician Chuck Redd called off the annual Christmas Eve performances after the Kennedy Center board added President Trump’s name to the performing arts center.

64 Turkish bar associations condemn the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison for "threatening" Erdogan (SCF/Stockholm Center for Freedom)
https://stockholmcf.org/64-bar-associa

64 bar associations condemn Turkish journalist’s conviction as blow to free expression - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Sixty-four bar associations across Turkey have condemned the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, calling his prison sentence “a severe blow to free expression” and warning that journalism cannot be criminalized. The statement came after a court sentenced Altaylı to four years, two months in prison for allegedly “threatening” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in remarks he […]

Another Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built https://www.

China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater (Anna Lagos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-dives-in-on-the-worlds-first-wind-p…

China Dives in on the World’s First Wind-Powered Undersea Data Center
The $226 million project uses ocean breezes and seawater to stay cool.

#CFP: Center for Religion and Cities
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🥵 Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-efficient.html

Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the largest share of data center energy use, cooling systems come in second—but a new study by researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known as NREL, offers a potential solution to reduce peak energy consumption.

Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change (Kristin Wright/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/27/g-s1-103808/kennedy-center-lawsuit-chuck-redd-cancellation-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p36#a251227p36

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Kids, don't buy RF connectors on Amazon. Came across this one that I didn't even need a microscope or pin gauge to see the problem with.

Good Morning at this #silentsunday .
Don't have a lot to say right now. I just fixed some configuration and am now back to my coffee ;)
Enjoy your day friends.
#photography #fog

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

Good morning #39c3

Just finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Grenell Vows To Sue Musician For $1M For Canceling Kennedy Center Show Due To Dear Leader's Renaming - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/grenell-vows-to-sue-musician-for-1m-over-canceled-kennedy-center-show-due-to-glorious-leaders-renaming/

Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-scam-centers-cybercr…

Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
A Thai regional army commander say that the number of people fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand after Myanmar’s military shut down a major online scam center has slowed to a trickle. The news on Tuesday came after more than 1,500 people had left in the past week. The KK Park site was identified by Thai officials and independent experts as housing a major cybercrime operation. It was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October as part of operations starting in early September to suppress cross-bor…

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

Priceless and timely parody. Bwah-ha-ha! 🤣🤣🤣
Trump Kennedy Center
#Trump #KennedyCenter

HOME | Trump Kennedy Center

Yesterday I went to #Heilbronn for https://ip.ai/ and it was a lot less exciting than I hoped for.
The visitors center has a café that makes yummy waffles. ☕🧇
So we joined a guided tour, and they proudly showed us the…

🚨Job alert! 🚨 Two Post-docs "bridging knowledge between Earth and Planetary sciences (the Solar System) and Exoplanet science (beyond the Solar System)" at the Munich Center for Geoastronomy #geology #planetary

⌛This is your last chance to become a speaker at SCaLE 23x, March 5-8, 2026, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. Submit your talks today
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

25 days, is how long it took my wife’s passport application to be mailed from a post office in the U.S. to the Canadian passport application center in Quebec.
In case anyone is wondering how the USPS is doing.

Conde Nast privacy center https://privacy.condenastdigital.com/ - now that we know Conde Nast got hacked, you may want to delete all your data. This page has what you need.

Already over 12 years ago, the Google data center in Hamina, Finland, was equipped with a sauna powered by the facility's residual heat 🙀.
https://www.wired.com/2012/10/google-finland-data-center-2

Lions center Frank Ragnow fails physical, won't come out of retirement to rejoin team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6847495/2025/11/29/frank-ragnow-lions-failed-physical-retirement-comeback/

The AI bubble has now dragged the market of RAM into its whirlpool
https://www.theverge.com/news/828337/ram-memory-shortage-crunch-market-prices-central-micro-center

RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster
The RAM shortage is forcing stores like Central Computer and Micro Center to sell PC memory at market prices instead of advertising prices.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
KATE: Stop it, Pella! [Kate rushes at Pella, who shoots her dead. Pella enters the launch silo and the door closes before the others can rush in. Avon takes the crystal from Kate's neckband.]
[Inside silo. The Scorpio's turntable begins to turn and rise.]

The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile.
Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia
— is the subject of a political battle over whether the shuttle should remain part of the National Air and Space Museum's collection
or be relocated to Houston, home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.
New correspondence between the space agency, Ted Cruz and the Smithsonian shows both the p…

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces
"You'd be doing irreparable damage."

As a young Disney kid, I envied Disney World and their Epcot Center. After watching most of this walk-through I envy no more. Epcot looks like someone took all the duty free shops from all the airports and jammed them together with a few mid dark rides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8dq5_Tm_uM

"Soft-sided tents"?
This is Alex Jones' "FEMA is building detention camps to put us after they take our guns" hysteria made reality and inflicted on whoever Trump wants to punish, no conviction required.
#Utah already did residential schools and Japanese-American internment camps to our eternal shame and guilt. Utah currently has a huge, barely legal teenager an…

Will Utah be home to new ICE detention center?
A new report claims Utah is expected to be the site of a new ICE detention center built by the Department of Homeland Security.

#ICE Is holed up in a #Milwaukee bldg owned by a local Universisty and despite previous 2023 assurances it would soon move on , are now refusing to leave.
The local Milwaukee School of Engineering is now in an awkward position as it's planned expansion site is now engineered to be off limits to them as it is a…

ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to audio of a meeting obtained by 404 Media.

Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Internal email: CBS' standards department told staff to use the Kennedy Center name, saying the change to Trump Kennedy Center needs Congressional approval (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/12/23/kennedy-center-honors-cbs-bro…

On CBS, it was still the Kennedy Center Honors 
The network kept the Kennedy Center’s original name in its broadcast, and CBS News instructed staff to do the same, an email shows.

Moody Urbanity - Playground 🎠
情绪化城市 - 娱乐场 🎠
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

3 takeaways from Cowboys' Thanksgiving win include troubles on fourth down https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/28/cowboys-chiefs-week-13-major-takeaways/87502281007/

TALK> Rupert Gethin - Dec 4 - at Mangalam Research Center & on Zoom https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133501/rupert-gethin-talk-dec-4-mangalam-research-center-zoom

Interim HC Mike Kafka reviews Week 17 vs. Raiders https://www.giants.com/video/interim-hc-mike-kafka-reviews-week-17-vs-raiders

Busy little spider! A female Spiny Orb Weaver has set up house between the oak tree and the neighbors palms which are about 35 feet away. It is also attached to the power into the house and the ground. I marked about where it is in an attempt to not knock it down when I cut the front grass tomorrow. Figure after that much work she deserves to enjoy all the hopefully mosquitos that she snares.

Fedi seems like the place where people would appreciate this joke

Lions' Frank Ragnow fails physical: Pro Bowl center will not rejoin team after coming out of retirement

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/detroit-lions-frank-ragnow-fails-p…

How Kyrsten Sinema Bullied an Arizona City to Approve Her Client's AI Data Center (Andrew Perez/Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/kyrsten-sinema-arizona-lobby-ai-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p159#a251028p159

I think my package is trying to hit all 6 boroughs before it arrives to my house.

Nesting spots for birds on top of a telephone pole in the Mulholland Wildflower Refuge
#photo #photography #landscape

As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/microsoft-ai-data-center-rejection-vs-sup…

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: 'Horses are skittish'
Tech giants are increasingly facing community backlash as they select places to build mammoth AI data centers.

Nick Mangold, All-Pro center for Jets, dies at age of 41 after bout with kidney disease https://www.nfl.com/news/nick-mangold-dies-all-pro-center-jets-age-41-kidney-disease

Russia destroys $100M EBRD-financed logistics center, kills four truck drivers hours after rejecting European peace plan - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25/russia-destroys-100m-ebrd-financed-logistics-center-kills-four-truck-drivers-hours-after-rejecting-european-peace-plan/

Filing: Fox News seeks to dismiss Newsmax's antitrust lawsuit filed in Wisconsin, after a Florida judge dismissed an earlier version of the case in September (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/fox-moves-to-dismiss-second-newsmax-anti…

Fox News moves to dismiss second Newsmax antitrust lawsuit
Attorneys for Fox News Media are seeking to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed by cable rival Newsmax in Wisconsin federal court, the second such case involving the two right-of-center news outlets.

Former Jets star center Mangold dies at age 41 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46732108/nick-mangold-former-jets-star-center-dies-age-41

Field hockey at the new Martha Dodson Field out past the East Hill Plaza -- Cornell Beat Vermont 3-1 in front of the largest crowd I've ever seen at a field hockey game. In the center are № 8 Ashley Plzak of the Big Red and № 15 Sophia Lefranc of the Catamounts, who won the US East Conference in 2024
#photo

S-cones (which respond to short wavelengths) are very few in the fovea center
so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot
(Williams et al., 1981)
but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the population
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11515/

S-Cone Pathways by Helga Kolb
There are differences in the genetic structure and locus of the S-cone visual pigment compared with the L- and M-cone pigments (Nathans et al., 1986), yet the S-cones are common to all vertebrate retinas and always form a consistent 8-10% of the cone photoreceptor population (Marc, 1982; Kolb and Lipetz, 1991).The S-cones are however, very few in the fovea center so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot (Williams et al., 1981) but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the popu…

Frank Ragnow, four-time Pro Bowl center, coming out of retirement to rejoin Lions https://www.nfl.com/news/frank-ragnow-four-time-pro-bowl-center-coming-out-of-retirement-to-rejoin-lions

Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

Trump fans blast musician who canceled holiday concert to protest Kennedy Center rebrand: 'Super bad TDS' (Steven Nelson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/25/us-news/trump-fans-blast-musician-who-canceled-holiday-concert-to-protest-kennedy-center-rebrand-super-bad-tds/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251225/p16#a251225p16

OpenAI's data center partners are set to rack up nearly $100B in debt; sources say banks may lend another $38B to Oracle and Vantage to build more OpenAI sites (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5605d086-289e-4b5f-803b-4c13666976a5

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

#Nicholas #Tartaglione
--the former NY cop sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of 4 men...
Is the same dirty ex-cop who was put in #Epstein's cell with him at the Metropolitan Correctional Center

Christmas Eve jazz concert at Kennedy Center canceled after Trump name added to building | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/christmas-eve-jazz-concert-at-kennedy-center-canceled-after-trump-name-added-to-building

🔀 Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
#molbio

Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that helps explain why growing up in a stimulating environment enhances memory. In contrast, a lack of stimulation can impair it. The team from the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint research center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), was led by researcher Ángel Barco.

Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building (Steven Sloan/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-center-jazz-jam-canceled-993fdbcbadb34da635799012e7369452
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p42#a251226p42

Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/openai-1-trillion-altman

Sam Altman: OpenAI wants to get to $1 trillion a year in infrastructure spend
Altman said the company still faces technical and financial hurdles to get to that lofty goal.

TALK> Rupert Gethin - Dec 4 - at Mangalam Research Center & on Zoom
https://ift.tt/ljHu0XW
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Lions' Frank Ragnow to unretire: How four-time Pro Bowl center gives Detroit's offense a jolt before playoffs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/detroit-lion…

Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Realty's joint venture Digital Connexion plans to invest $11B by 2030 to build a 1 GW data center in India's Visakhapatnam (Sanjai P R/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Congresswoman Sues To Remove Donald Trump From Kennedy Center's Name
https://deadline.com/2025/12/trump-kennedy-center-lawsuit-name-1236655635/

Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29…

Trump’s takeover of the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
reached its inevitable apogee on Thursday afternoon
when it was announced that the center’s board of trustees had voted to rename it
the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Even though Mr. Trump had already been calling it that for months in trollish posts online,
he acted shocked that his handpicked board had thought to do this for him.
Trump had called into a meeting of the board, which is no…

Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center
The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress.

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/24/kennedy-center-christmas-eve-jazz-concert-canceled-after-trump-name-added-to-building-00706530
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p67#a251224p67

Blackstone partners with Humain to invest about $3B in building and operating data centers and AI infrastructure across Saudi Arabia, set to open in 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/blackston…

BREAKING: We are suing Trump & his cronies to restore the Kennedy Center’s lawful name
We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to represent Kennedy Center Trustee @repbeatty.bsky.social
with our friends at
Washington Litigation Group
Congress named the Kennedy Center
and only they can change it
ht…

Norm Eisen (@normeisen.bsky.social)
BREAKING: We are suing Trump & his cronies to restore the Kennedy Center’s lawful name We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to represent Kennedy Center Trustee @repbeatty.bsky.social w/ our friends at Washington Litigation Group Congress named the Kennedy Center & only they can change it https://www.democracydefendersaction.org/press-release/12.22.25-pr

Board of Kennedy Center votes to change its name to Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kennedy-center-board-votes-to-rename-institution-trump-kennedy-center-white-house-says/

How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-data-cent

AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions

Frank Ragnow fails physical, will not rejoin Lions after attempting to end retirement https://www.nfl.com/news/frank-ragnow-fails-physical-will-not-rejoin-lions-after-attempting-to-end-retirement

House Democrat sues to stop "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/23/trump-kennedy-center-renaming-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p132#a251222p132

The rule violates the law, which requires age to be taken into account, and "will likely cause disproportionate harm to people living in the South and Appalachia." IOW, another way to screw his base...
Trump Administration Plans Deep Cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance, Particularly for Older Workers | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-administration-plans-deep-cuts-to-social-security-disability-insurance-particularly-for

Vikings activate center Kelly (concussions) off IR https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47062916/vikings-activate-center-ryan-kelly-concussions-ir

"I would place the odds at 70%
that Democrats are going to recapture the House in a massive tsunami"
-- Patrick Gaspard of the Center for American Progress
Last month a poll by Gallup showed Trump’s job approval rating down to 36%, the lowest of his second term
Notably his approval rating was #underwater
on crime (43%),
foreign affairs (41%),
foreign tr…

The US AI data center boom is consuming capital, power, and people that the rest of the economy needs, and is crowding out Trump's manufacturing revival plans (Bloomberg)

Climate scientists and meteorologists
are sounding the alarm
after White House budget director Russell Vought announced
the Trump administration will
❌break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR.
“He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann,
scientist and co-author of
"Science Under Siege".
Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate m…

“Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado
Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR. “He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann, scientist and co-author of Science Under Siege. Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate models that we need to inform climate policy.”

Alphabet agrees to acquire clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75B in cash, and existing debt, as part of its push to dramatically expand AI data centers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/alpha…

Alphabet to Buy Data Center Partner Intersect for $4.75 Billion
Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant in its push to dramatically expand its data center footprint to power AI.

Former Lions All-Pro center Frank Ragnow comes out of retirement to join team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6840886/2025/11/26/frank-ragnow-lions-retirement-comeback/

With Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel.
Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him.
Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg,
was violating laws and the constitution,”
said Larry Jacobs,
director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the…

Analysis: since 2023, data center power demands have delayed 15 coal plants' retirements; the Trump administration has ordered two power plants to remain open (Ariel Wittenberg/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/27/a

Nick Mangold, former All-Pro center for the Jets, dies at 41 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6751296/2025/10/26/nick-mangold-jets-obituary-kidney-disease/

German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas,
in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
“It’s frightening, honestly,”
said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center fo…

S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/data-center-deals-…

Data center deals hit record $61 billion in 2025 as AI valuation risks and funding concerns grip investors
Hyperscalers are increasingly turning to outside capital in the form of debt to fund the energy-intensive infrastructure.

US tech giants are on a data center building spree, sparking fury worldwide; research says ~60% of the 1,244 largest global centers in June were outside the US (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/ai-data-center-b…

AI Data Centers Create Fury From Mexico to Ireland
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

Oracle says final negotiations on an equity deal for its Michigan data center project are "on schedule" and Related Digital will be its development partner (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Oracle Says Equity Deal on Michigan Data Center ‘On Schedule’
Oracle Corp. said final negotiations on an equity deal for the company’s data center project in Michigan is “on schedule” and going according to plan.

Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900 facilities in 50 countries, including AWS colocation facilities, higher than commonly understood (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

Oracle Strikes $150 Billion of Data Center Leases in November Quarter
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of Nov. 30, Oracle had $248 billion of lease commitments “substantially all related to data centers and cloud

Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-data-center-resistance-has-arrived/

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.