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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.

Bravo! Philip Glass withdraws premiere of his Symphony No.15 at Kennedy Center...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/27/philip-glass-withdraws-lincoln-symphony-kennedy-center

Amid all that's happened in the last week or so it's easy to forget that Trump is destroying the Kennedy Center.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/27/philip-glass-withdraws-lincoln-symphony-kennedy-center

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.

Source: Commanders release starting C Biadasz https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48047630/commanders-release-starting-center-tyler-biadasz

Nvidia discloses $3.5B in guarantees to companies leasing land, power, and data center facilities, up 4x on Q3; the move may help firms without credit ratings (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-dis…

Nvidia Discloses $3.5 Billion in Data Center Lease Guarantees
Nvidia said it has provided $3.5 billion in guarantees to companies leasing land, power and data center facilities, four times the amount it disclosed the previous quarter. The guarantees could help companies without credit ratings, such as AI cloud startups, secure coveted power resources and debt financing to build data centers. Nvidia said it provided the guarantees to “early-stage

Harrowing 911 calls from ICE detention center reveal children unable to breathe, suffering seizures and broken bones: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-detention-center-911-calls-children-b2928990.html

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

All eyes focused on Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza as QBs take center stage at NFL scouting combine https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/all-eyes-focused-on-heisman-winner-fernando-mendoza-as-qbs-take-ce…

Audio: Bari Weiss told staff that she wanted CBS News to appeal to political moderates, saying "we're for the center-right, and we're for the center-left" (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/27/bari-weiss-cbs-ne…

Bari Weiss to CBS News staff: Without a shift in strategy, ‘we are toast’
The CBS News editor in chief said the network needs to produce journalism people want as she named a raft of new contributors from her website, the Free Press.

NFL news roundup: Commanders releasing former Pro Bowl center Tyler Biadasz https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-commanders-releasing-former-pro-bowl-center-tyler-biadasz

When guards appeared earlier this month outside the room Christian Hinojosa shared with her son and other women and children at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas,
she guessed what they might be after.
She quickly donned her puffy winter jacket, then slipped a manila envelope inside it.
“Thank God the weather was cool,” she said — the jacket didn’t raise suspicions.
Then, she said, she was instructed to leave the room while eight to 10 guards lifted up …

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

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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.

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/

Philip Glass Withdraws From Kennedy Center, as Its Symphony Vows to Play On (Adam Nagourney/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/arts/music/kennedy-center-national-symphony-orchestra-gianandrea-noseda.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p62#a260127p62

AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technol…

Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers
The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs.

Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast #environment

Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast
A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has developed a new method to track Earth's greenness—a key indicator of vegetation health and activity—by calculating its center of mass.

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

The University of Mississippi Medical Center said Wednesday it has canceled regularly scheduled clinic appointments and elective procedures through Friday as it continues to restore systems after a Feb. 19 cyberattack that targeted the hospital network.
https://

UMMC cancels clinics and elective procedures through Friday amid cyberattack recovery | Tippah News
The University of Mississippi Medical Center said it canceled regularly scheduled clinic appointments and elective procedures through Friday as it continues to restore systems after a Feb. 19 cyberattack. Officials said progress is being made, but experts warned full recovery could take months.

Hoffnungsvolles aus Minnesota:
https://substack.com/@terileigh/note/c-205420311

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

Good morning #39c3

“Don't worry, I've got you.
Rest in Peace, Alex.
Beautiful street art tribute by Topsy (topsy_paints on Instagram) in Seattle, U.S.
This powerful piece by Topsy is located right outside the Swedish Medical Center (First Hill Campus) in Seattle, Washington." - Street Art Utopia on Facebook

This might come in handy tomorrow morning.
Originally posted by @….
#infographics #winter

Human trafficking. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o2s7e2iusv5jd5gcykzbxms4/post/3mddituuijc2s

'This is not a Ted Carter decision,' University Senate meets to discuss Wexner name removal, Chase Center concerns, Athletic developments (The Lantern)
https://www.thelantern.com/2026/02/this-is-not-a-ted-carter-decision-university-senate-meets-to-discuss-wexner-name-removal-chase-center-concerns-athletic-developments/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p37#a260227p37

Was I sitting here at 21:00 PT / 00:00 ET refreshing lego.com just so I could get the silly little Pokémon center reward? You bet I was.
Did I get one? Heck yeah.
All the best to the other fans out there hoping to get their hands on one.
#LEGO

TikTok US says it is working to restore services after a power outage at a data center and any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-outage-data-cent…

TikTok says a power outage messed up users' feeds over the weekend
TikTok said a power outage at a US data center on Sunday impacted its services, including its For You feeds.

This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.

"These data center developers asked Trump for an exemption from pollution rules"
#US #USA #America #Trump

These data center developers asked Trump for an exemption from pollution rules
Though the companies weren't granted exemptions, their requests illustrate the data center industry's desperate quest for energy.

i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy

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.

I wonder if it is just an effect of old hardware, but boy, the new @… OS release is a crashfest on my 2011 Mac Mini. The App Center crashed on me at least 7 times before I had enough and downloaded Zorin (because I’ve also wanted to give that a spin). It looked very nice, though, and it’s nice that Flatpaks show up now by default.
BTW: Elementary is …

African Daisy. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. December 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5 #descansogardens #garden #daisy

Big questions surround Raiders interior offensive line this offseason https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/26/raiders-2026-team-needs-interior-offensive-line-guard-center/888…

City leaders exploring legal ways to stop ICE facility from opening in Oklahoma City
#okc
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-city

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.

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…

YEZZ! This is "soft Power" oft highest means. No Debuts for Fascists!
#KennedyCenter #usapol #philipglass

I had not heard that the trumpies have ordered the National Symphony to begin every concert with The Star Spangled Banner.
Are there any among us who have the talent to create a melding of the Star Spangled tune with what really ought to be our national anthem, Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Our Land"?
Then the symphony could begin with that.
And wouldn't it be cool if at sports games, after the singing of the Spangled Banner song the crowd picks up and sin…

Under Trump, National Symphony Opens Concerts With the National Anthem
The new directive came after President Trump made himself chairman of the Kennedy Center, the home of the orchestra.

Singapore-based Digital Edge plans to invest $4.5B to build a 500 MW hyperscale data center facility in Indonesia, with the first phase set to open in Q4 2026 (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

No Screens
#poetry #poetrycommunity Another morning poem that started as a half-waking image. Today, I am in core reality.No screens, just sunlight, air, and greeneryOn a hill above the reservoir.An ocean sparkles to the south. I amThe center of perspective. I command The view. I …

A guided aerial bomb hit the CENTER of Kharkiv! 2 KILLED 😱 #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/a-guided-aerial-bomb-hit.html

@… I believe the community center mentioned in this article used to be Bryant Junior High, from your Prince/Oregon Trail thread. (Not relevant in any way other than that they mention Prince, but FYI.)

Urban Demons VIII 👻
城市鬼魂 VIII 👻
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OK, I think the STM32MP2 x Kintex-7 test board is ready for design review.
I'll be running through my checklist but would love some other eyes on it, especially by people familiar with such stuff.
https://github.com/azonenberg/stm32mp2-baremetal-t…

Gee, how nice - #PGE Resource center is open from 5 - 10 pm, and then people without power can go back to their electricity-free homes in the dark at 10 pm. Such service to people left in the dark. When will #SFPUC be allowed to take over the local grid from the mismanagement of PG&E? We need public power s…

Gee, how nice - #PGE Resource center is open from 5 - 10 pm, and then people without power can go back to their electricity-free homes in the dark at 10 pm. Such service to people left in the dark. When will #SFPUC be allowed to take over the local grid from the mismanagement of PG&E? We need public power s…

Einreiseverbote auch für Musk-Kritiker

Sanktionen verhängte die US-Regierung auch gegen die Gründerin des britischen Global Disinformation Index (GDI), Clare Melford, und gegen den Gründer des in den USA und Großbritannien tätigen Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), Imran Ahmed. Der Brite lebt der Organisation zufolge in Washington, ihm droht nun die Abschiebung aus den USA.
X-Eigentümer Elon Musk hatte das Center for Countering Digital Hate vergangenes Jahr …

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

🪸 Calm seas can drive coral bleaching, research reveals
#ocean

Calm seas can drive coral bleaching, research reveals
New research by Monash University and the ARC Center of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century analyzed close to three decades of weather data during the coral bleaching season and identified the prevalence of "doldrum days," and the absence of the trade winds, as a key factor in the mass bleaching events threatening the Great Barrier Reef.

Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest data center hub; record demand is expected during the winter storm, partly due to data center needs (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/po

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

"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…

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long
An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

🎃 Carbon and charisma: How climate network CC35 tricked its way to the limelight
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/carbon-and-charisma-how-climate-network-cc35-tricked-its-way-to-the-limelight/

The rise of CC35 and the business behind its climate deals
This investigation was produced with support from the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). Isabel Alarcón contributed reporting from Ecuador. BARCELONA — Covering more than 65 million hectares (160 million acres) across Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Gran Chaco is South America’s second-largest forest after the Amazon Rainforest. Over the last decades, the dry forest […]

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p48#a260226p48

Metacurity is the daily intelligence report that thousands of infosec professionals rely on to cope with news overload.
Check out today's issue, which covers critical developments you should know, including
--Cisco, Five Eyes alliance urge immediate patching for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN zero day,
--OpenAI refused to assist in online smear and other misdeeds,
--Shinyhunters pressures Odido with first leak of stolen data,
--Only a small fraction of new vulnerabil…

Cisco, Five Eyes alliance urge immediate patching for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN zero day
OpenAI refused to assist in online smear and other misdeeds, Shinyhunters pressures Odido with first leak of stolen data, Only a small fraction of new vulnerabilities are exploited, Mississippi Medical Center closed through Friday, Anthropic denies it won't support military cyber action, much more

What's next for Broncos after AFC Championship defeat? Bo Nix recovery and hunt for RB take center stage

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/whats-next-for-broncos-after-afc-…

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

A British anti-disinformation campaigner who was told by the Trump administration that he faces possible removal from the US
said he is being targeted by arrogant and “sociopathic” tech companies for trying to hold them to account.
Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH),
is among five European nationals barred from the US by the state department
after being accused of seeking to push tech firms to censor or suppress American v…

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

🔀 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.

Raiders adding 3-time Pro Bowl center will change everything for Ashton Jeanty https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/22/raiders-adding-3-time-pro-bowl-center-will-change-everything-for-ashton-jeanty/

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…

🐛 Hidden insect diversity in grass shoots threatened by mowing
#insects

Hidden insect diversity in grass shoots threatened by mowing
When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and other insects that live in plants. These tiny creatures are actually very common, as shown by a team of researchers at the University of Göttingen and the Hungarian HUN-REN Center for Ecological Research.

Corning says Meta committed to paying up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable in its AI data centers, and it plans to expand its Hickory, NC, factory (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/apple-supplier-corning-win…

Meta inks deal to pay Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cables in AI data centers
Corning, a 175-year-old glassmaker known for supplying iPhone glass, is now at the center of the AI infrastructure boom with a new type of fiber-optic cable

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

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…

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

Raiders Must Go All In to Sign No. 1 Rated Offensive Lineman https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/all-in-to-sign-tyler-linderbaum/

Google Is Spending Over $4 Billion on a Data Center Company
https://gizmodo.com/google-is-spending-over-4-billion-on-a-data-center-company-2000702751

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.

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

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.

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/

Renée Fleming cancels Kennedy Center appearances (Associated Press)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/renee-fleming-cancels-appearances-kennedy-center-rcna255673
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p129#a260123p129

Renée Fleming Won't Perform at Kennedy Center Concerts (Jason M. Bailey/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/arts/music/renee-fleming-kennedy-center.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260124/p2#a260124p2

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.

States Should Adopt the Wealth Proceeds Tax to Raise New Revenue | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/states-should-adopt-the-wealth-proceeds-tax-to-raise-new-revenue

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,”
Twelve former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
pose “a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public h…

Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar - KFF Health News
An internal email claiming covid vaccines killed children triggered a formal response from a dozen past FDA commissioners. The email, sent by the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, outlines a framework that could have significant impact on the nation’s vaccine policies.

Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an "AI cloud" with a $2.5B valuation, managing 35,000 Nvidia GPUs across six data centers (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

AI Startup Merges With A Billionaire-Backed Data Center Operator In $2.5 Billion Deal
The startup behind open source tool PyTorch Lightning has merged with compute provider Voltage Park to create a “full stack AI cloud” to serve corporates and startups like Cursor.

'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over (David Edwards/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kennedy-center-ratings/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p66#a251224p66

Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday
behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where
a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week
after being detained in Minnesota.
Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press
showed children and parents at the
"South Texas Family Residential Center"
clad in jackets and sweaters,
some of them holding signs that included
“Libertad para los niños,”
or “Libe…

Immigrant families protest Texas detention of Minnesota boy and father
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota. Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press on Saturday showed some of the detainees coordinating to form “SOS." They were standing outside the residence areas of the South Texas Family Residential Center in the rural town of Dilley. One detainee told AP families inside sought to send a message that t…

Digital Realty, QTS, and NTT Data warn the data center industry is doing a poor job of combating local opposition; 24 US projects were blocked in January alone (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f45d45fc-c0ea-463c-8edf-38fb99ed5c05

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.”

Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure (Bloomberg)

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

Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/nvidia-…

As Paramount moved Monday to sweeten its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery,
a high-stakes political battle is playing out behind the scenes.
Paramount's latest offer enhanced its earlier $30-a-share bid, valued at $108 billion,
said a person familiar with the process who was not authorized to comment publicly.
Details of the revised proposal, first reported by Bloomberg, were not immediately available.
The firm is leveraging both the dynastic wealth of

Politics take center stage as Paramount submits new offer for Warner Bros. Discovery
Over the weekend, President Trump threatened Netflix, telling the streamer to fire Susan Rice from its board or "pay the consequences."

Lawmaker Sues to Remove Trump's Name From the Kennedy Center (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/politics/lawsuit-trump-name-removal-kennedy-center.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p131#a251222p131

Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb data center energy demand, is raising a $25M seed extension at a ~$250M post-money valuation (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/02/19/emerald-ai-varun-s…

Scoop: Nvidia-backed Emerald AI raising $25M to cut data center energy demand
The round has a roughly $250m post-money valuation, sources say.

An artificial intelligence data center development venture has signed a multimillion-dollar deal that will allow it to ⚠️consume over 40% of a Pennsylvania town’s excess water supply.
PennLive reported on Monday that Carlisle Development Partners,
a joint venture created by developers Pennsylvania Data Center Partners and PowerHouse
Data Centers, had signed a $14.1 million agreement that will let it tap into the public water and sewer systems of Middlesex Township, Pennsylva…

Data center giant secures $14 million deal to consume 40% of Pennsylvania town’s excess water
The data center will get access to 400,000 gallons of water per day—enough to serve over 2,300 homes.

DG Matrix, which builds solid-state transformers to handle up to 2.4 MW and boost data center power efficiency, raised a $60M Series A led by Engine Ventures (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/dg-matrix-raises-60m-to-make-dat…

Exclusive: DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter | TechCrunch
The startup is making solid-state transformers capable of intelligently aggregating power from a number of different sources before sending it to data center racks.

Days after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall,
Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.
McIver’s visit coincided with a new filing in the Newark Democrat’s criminal case
in which her attorneys accuse prosecutors of failing to produce key evidence that they say shows bias among the agents involved in the scuffle,

Oversight visit brings Rep. McIver back to migrant jail at center of her criminal case - BLKNewsNow.com
NEWARK — Days after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall, Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.

Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its 2nd-generation AI accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process, deploying today in its Azure US Central data center region (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/867670/microsoft-maia-200-ai-chip-announcement

Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google
Microsoft is launching a successor to its custom in-house AI chip. The Maia 200 goes up against Amazon and Google’s latest AI chips and is rolling out now.

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-taps-t…

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW | TechCrunch
OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.

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.