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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.

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.

China claims it caught US attempting cyberattack on national time center https://therecord.media/china-attack-national-time-center

Microsoft’s aiding of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians exposes company and its leadership to legal liability
https://glanlaw.org/news/microsofts-aiding-o…

Kerry Kennedy says she'll 'grab a pickax' to pull Trump's name off Kennedy Center (Ryan Mancini/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/kerry-kennedy-renaming-of-kennedy-center/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p5#a251220p5

March 2025 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-banners-kennedy-center/ vs https://e…

Photo of 'imperial red banners' with Trump's likeness outside Kennedy Center isn't real
The image showed U.S. President Donald Trump's face on large red banners outside the prominent performing arts institution in Washington.

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.

The Donald J Trump and John F Kennedy Memorial Center.
"Memorial" Center. A death foretold?

Marcus Elliot Quintet feat. Dwight Adams at Blue Llama
#jazz

"Disney is under siege from all sides.
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, the parent company of ABC has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle. The company now faces protests outside its studios, celebrities threatening to break ties and political pressure from Republicans and Democrats."

Pressure mounts on Disney over Kimmel suspension as some boycott calls spread
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, Disney has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle.

just starting to rain lightly when I came in just now, which I love, plus they lit up and Embarcadero Center today!

Important clergy symposium hosted by FASPE and the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy. November 10 at YDS. https://www.theologyandpolicy.yale.edu/blog/public-theology-in-a-time-of-authoritarianism-a-clergy-symposium

Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism: A Clergy Symposium — Center for Public Theology & Public Policy
Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism is presented in partnership with Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics . The program will explore ethical possibilities of religion in today’s world, amidst politicization of religious communities, the deepening of moral and cul

#CFP: Center for Religion and Cities
https://ift.tt/l9hWS3P
Members and friends of the Center for Religion and Cities (CRC) ,
via Input 4 RELCFP

#CFP: Center for Religion and Cities
Members and friends of the Center for Religion and Cities (CRC) ,

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/

View from behind Clark and Rockefeller Halls where I spent a lot of time as a grad student in physics
#photo #photography #architecture

Die Trump-Regierung will das renommierte US-#Klimaforschungszentrum #NCAR zerschlagen.
Der Vorwurf: Es sei ein Zentrum des „Klimaalarmismus“. NCAR spielt eine zentrale Rolle bei der Erforschung von #Wetter

Trump admin threatens to break up major climate research center
Major research institution dismissed as a source of “climate alarmism.”…

yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 6.
opening act: jeff tweedy
comedian: jo firestone
mix CDR by georgia
post show DJ: miss christina ginger
benefitting mary mitchell family & youth center
#nyc

#Kiel
„Unser #Stadtbild ist bunt!
Diesen Mittwoch treffen wir uns am Stresemannplatz (vor dem Welcome Center), um gemeinsam zu zeigen: Vielfalt gehört dazu – in unseren Städten und in unserer Gesellschaft.
[…]
Wir stehen zusammen gegen Rassismus, Ausgrenzung und Hetze.
Denn: Unsere S…

Kennedy Center renamed the 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says (Joey Garrison/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/18/trump-kennedy-center-takeover-white-house/87829719007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p120#a251218p120

It would be hilarious if somebody hacked the Kennedy Center website to rebrand it as the Trump/Epstein Center.

Still missing for Europe: a website monitoring local communities against data centers.
„$64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing back.“
https://www.datacenterwa…

A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana
$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks to pay every state cop in Louisiana for seven years.

I’m sure that there’s a lot of regional variation but our Costco tire Center is just awesome.
(As I toddle off to write like my third glowing comment to Costco about them in a year)

Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-offshore-drilling-plan-brings-oil-spill-risks-to-us-coasts-2025-11-20/
…

Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts
Center for Biological Diversity: Industry Giveaway of Public Waters Proposed During Climate Talks

There’s an obvious unfinished task here… @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
President John F. Kennedy didn’t name the Kennedy Center for himself. Eisenhower signed legislation to create a “National Cultural Center.” Eisenhower and Kennedy fundraised for it. Congress and Johnson only named it in honor of Kennedy after he was assassinated. www.kennedy-center.org/our-story/

Tim Hortons merch coming up at a mall near you
🤢
(Stolen on Reddit #toronto)

Ohio Dem on Kennedy Center board call says she was muted: Renaming ‘was not unanimous’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5656051-joyce-beatty-disputes-kennedy-center-vote/

i found these two gems at the record store up the street and, at twelve bucks each, couldn't resist. i listened to these LPs (and dream weaver and forest flower) a ton in high school.
#jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords

Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

49ers' pass rush takes hit with DE Huff sidelined https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46664405/49ers-huff-brendel-miss-hamstring-injuries

#Memphis: there’s a free brake light repair clinic this Saturday! Don’t be giving #Trump’s #tAsKfOrCe nazis a reason to pull you over; make sure your lights are good.
Volunteers will be replacing brake and…

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
TARRANT: What about you?
GROFF: I'll be alright, get going! But if you could tell them, my family, they were always in my thoughts.
TARRANT: We'll tell them, Groff. [Groff tries to move main switch]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/363…

Nice work on this headline.
https://www.arlnow.com/2025/12/18/performing-arts-venue-across-the-potomac-from-arlington-may-be-renamed-the-trump-kennedy-center/

We don't need no stinking atmosphere.
From: @…
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8koidj5z/…

Trivia Thursday: Who was the first Ring of Honor inductee? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trivia-thursday-who-was-the-first-ring-of-honor-inductee

Trump vows U.S. help in settling Sudan war, at request of Saudi crown prince (Kathryn Watson/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sudan-saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman-kennedy-center/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p128#a251119p128

Woher will #OpenAI das Geld für dieses Data Center nehmen? Und den Strom? Und die Chips?
OpenAI, Sur Energy Weigh $25 Billion Argentina Data Center Project - Slashdot https://

There's a nice crowd here for #NoKings
https://kubrick.htvapps.com/htv-prod/images/dynamic/wisn/Cathedral_Square.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=900:*

Excellent blog by @mobilityhouse.com on #V2G / bidirectional charging standards.
https://mobilityhouse-energy.com/int_en/knowledge-center/ar…

Expert discussion on bidirectional charging standards
We discuss charging standards for bidirectional charging with our CTO, the Head of Bidirectional Charging Solutions, and our operating system provider EcoG.

The US and the UK and Australia are going after bulletproof hosting companies.
United States, Australia, and United Kingdom Sanction Russian Cybercrime Infrastructure Supporting Ransomware
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0319

United States, Australia, and United Kingdom Sanction Russian Cybercrime Infrastructure Supporting Ransomware
.caption > figcaption { text-align: center; font-style: italic; } WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the United Kingdom’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office are announcing coordinated sanctions targeting Media Land, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider, for its role in supporting ransomware operations and other forms of cybercrime.  OFAC is a…

The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

"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…

More Republicans say US is headed in wrong direction, poll finds
A new poll shows Republicans’ outlook on the direction of the country has soured dramatically. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll was conducted shortly after last week's assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. The poll shows the share of Republicans who see the country headed in the right direction has fallen sharply in recent months. Today, only about half in the GOP see the nation on the right course, down from 70% in June. Overall, about …

Why Starting Geno Smith is a Mistake for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-starting-geno-smith-mistake

TL;DR: ; yes.
Did the Trump-Kennedy Center board violate federal law by renaming facility? | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kennedy-center-donald-trump-rename-performing-arts-b2887327.html

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

El Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica #IMNCR avisa que la onda tropical #40 podría convertirse en ciclón (ya sea tormenta tropical o incluso huracšn) y que viene hacia Centroamérica

Army № 39 Anthony Paradiso jumps in front of Cornell Quarterback № 18 Stefano Luis moments after Luis passed the ball in Sprint Football under the lights this Friday
#photo #photography #football

Australia's first national report on indoor air quality reveals urgent need for action #Australia

Australia's first national report on indoor air quality reveals urgent need for action
The "State of Indoor Air in Australia 2025" report, led by QUT's ARC Training Center for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission (THRIVE), highlights the health, well-being and economic risks posed by poor indoor air quality across homes, workplaces, schools, hospitals and public buildings.

Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’ https://www.404media.co/two-weeks-of-surveillance-footage-from-ice-detention-center-irretrievably-destroyed/

Immigrant justice lawyers representing 13 plaintiffs sued to overturn the first Trump administration's asylum ban in "Noem vs. Al Otro Lado"
The lawsuit was filed in July 2017 by Al Otro Lado, along with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, the American Immigration Council, and other organizations located near the border.
“Customs and Border Protection officers would confront people literally standing at the line and obstruct them from coming in,” said Melissa…

US Is Legally Obligated to Provide Asylum. SCOTUS May Help Trump End It Anyway.
The federal government is appealing a case from Trump’s first term to reinstate an asylum ban at the southern border.

Philadelphia will open historic Pride visitors center to mark 250th anniversary of the United States - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/philadelphia-will-open-historic-pride-visitors-center-to-mark-250th-anniversary-of-the-united-states/

JFK's family erupts over "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming plan (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/trump-kennedy-center-rename-plan-jfk-family
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p1#a251219p1

McCoy, Miller injured as Saints lose, fall to 1-6 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46651922/erik-mccoy-kendre-miller-injured-saints-26-14-loss

Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements 🏗️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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.

Trivia Thursday: Who was the first Ring of Honor inductee? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trivia-thursday-who-was-the-first-ring-of-honor-inductee

The front of the new Computing and Information Science building looked like a garden center when they were installing the landscaping
#photo #photography #cornell

With Trump-Kennedy Center, President Doubles Down on U.S. Culture (Damian Paletta/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/with-trump-kennedy-center-president-doubles-down-on-u-s-culture-db220cfb
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p22#a251219p22

Millions of Brazilians unknowingly eat toxic, endangered shark: How Mongabay broke the story https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/12/millions-of-brazilians-unknowingly-eat-toxic-endangered-shark-how-mongabay-br…

Brazilian government serves shark to infants, prisoners and more: How Mongabay broke the story
Mongabay senior editor Philip Jacobson joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss a two-part investigation published this year in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center about how state governments in Brazil have been procuring shark meat — which is high in mercury and arsenic — served to potentially millions of schoolchildren and thousands of public institutions. With Mongabay’s […]

Grambling State's 'World Famed Tiger Marching Band' and Jackson State's 'Sonic Boom of the South' set to take center stage at the P

On Wednesday night, Nvidia released its highly anticipated/dreaded quarterly earnings report
— and Wall Street let out a sigh of relief,
— at least initially.
The multitrillion dollar chipmaker at the center of the AI boom reported
a ludicrous $57 billion in quarterly revenue,
netting it nearly $32 billion in profit.
Compared to the same quarter from the year before,
it amounted to a 62 percent surge in sales,
and a further 65 percent increase …

Oops! Nvidia’s Stock Is Falling Again After Its “Blowout” Earnings Report
After dazzling Wall Street with a "blowout" earnings report which saw its stock rise, Nvidia's stock is already declining.

What Trump Did to the Kennedy Center Triggered a Level-Five Lib Meltdown (Matt Vespa/Townhall)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/12/19/trump-kennedy-center-n2668160
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p51#a251219p51

US CHIPS Act-funded SMART USA Institute, focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Department of Commerce will terminate its $285M five-year contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductor-digital-twins-funding

Digital Twins Center Faces Funding Cut
Why did the U.S. pull the plug on a $285M digital twin project for chip manufacturing?

Where to watch Seahawks vs. Saints: Prediction, TV channel, live stream, pick, odds, spread

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-sea…

The rather famous view up Libe Slope towards Uris Library with Willard Straight Hall unseen towards the right
#photo #photography #landscape

Trump's rally in tiny Rocky Mount, North Carolina, an economically distressed region,
drew a smaller than expected crowd,
leaving merchandise vendors and supporters disheartened.
According to interviews conducted by the Washington Post, the presidential visit was marked by a sense of disappointment and disillusionment
as Trump touted economic growth claims that contrasted sharply with the visible hardship surrounding the Rocky Mount Events Center.
One Trump m…

OpenAI partners with Foxconn to design and develop data center server racks to be manufactured in the US; Foxconn will produce cabling, power systems, and more (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ya know who gets to rename the Department of Defense if anyone does? The US Congress.
Ya know who gets to rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if anyone does? The US Congress.
Ya know who history will never be kind to no matter what he tries to rename? A 79 year old dunce.
#USpol

Trump says he's 'surprised' and 'honored' his handpicked board voted to rename Kennedy Center (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/video/trump-says-hes-surprised-and-honored-his-handpicked-board-voted-to-rename-kennedy-center-bb43d2d2a7964929ac441d750abe97b9
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p142#a251218p142

𝑂𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑢𝑚 a.k.a. African Daisy seen in an annuals bed towards the end of the season
#photo #photography #flowers

CoreWeave says it won't increase its $9B offer for data center provider Core Scientific, despite opposition to the deal from major Core Scientific shareholders (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-2…

Did the Vikings botch their QB situation? Reassessing Minnesota's now-bumpy bet on J.J. McCarthy, backup plans

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/did-…

Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% to $51.2B, and net income up 65% to $31.9B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said sales for the company's current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are "off the charts."

“This precedent could result in people facing terrorism charges for doing very simple mainstream activism.”
There is no doubt a police officer was shot at the Texas protest.
Prosecutors have brought charges against people they say helped the alleged shooter escape.
But the case has drawn considerable alarm because of the way that prosecutors have sought to create a criminal enterprise
– a “North Texas antifa cell”
– among a group of demonstrators who were uninv…

Strange concrete sculptures circa 1960 near that big cluster of trees in the Arboretum
#photo #photography #landscape

A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, 50% use Instagram, 37% use TikTok, 32% use WhatsApp, 26% use Reddit, and 21% use X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/…

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…

Liberty Justice Center | Supreme Transparency
The Liberty Justice Center is the litigation arm of the right-wing Illinois Policy Institute. It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions (including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case), attacked gun safety measures, and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/trump-administration-break-climate-research-center-ncar-rcna249668
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p128#a251217p128

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/845831/ai-chips-data-center-power-water

AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
AI data centers are using growing amounts of electricity and water, research shows, although companies aren’t divulging many details.

Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/poli<…

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.

Sources: Jets center Myers gets 2-year, $11M deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47285492/sources-jets-center-josh-myers-gets-2-year-11m-extension

Screw It. Let's Rename the Moon. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-lets-rename-the-moon-trump-institute-of-peace-kennedy-center-coin-epsitein-files
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p44#a251219p44

CleanSpark shares jump 12% after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…

CleanSpark Shares Surge After Bitcoin Miner Joins Pivot to AI
Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure and the hiring of Jeffrey Thomas from Saudi Arabian AI firm Humain.

New Marquette Law School National Survey Finds More People Favoring Democrats Than Republicans In Anticipated 2026 Vote For Congress And Also More Democrats Saying They Are Certain To Vote (A Marquette education prepares students ...)
https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2025/new-marquette-law-national-survey-finds-more-people-favoring-democrats-in-anticipated-2026-vote-for-congress.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p62#a251119p62

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.

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

National Center for Atmospheric Research to Be Dismantled, Trump Administration Says (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/climate/national-center-for-atmospheric-research-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8._w4P.koJmi6jHMhtU&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p77#a251217p77

On Monday, Nov. 24,
after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh
before returning to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Even though strikers have returned to work, however,
many issues at the center of the strike are still in legal limbo
—and their fight for a fair contract is not over.
In this episode of Working People, we speak with three Newspap…

The longest-running strike in the US is over—and the workers won
After over 3 years on strike, members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh have returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While the legal battle is still unresolved, this is a major victory for the labor movement.

Vought says National Center for Atmospheric Research will be dismantled (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/national-center-for-atmospheric-research-ncar-dismantled-00694685
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p52#a251217p52

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on Dec. 12 after saying a tenant had canceled (Dakin Campbell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fermi-america-amazon-tenant-t…

Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge
"The lead negotiator for Amazon called me on Thursday," Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told Business Insider. The deal would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, he said.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado (Joey Garrison/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6942047625625600014c41b7
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p149#a251216p149

Data center proposals are facing growing opposition from towns across the US, as residents and officials raise concerns about water and electricity use (Daniel Wu/Washington Post)

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.
A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center, which provides high precision time services for the government and others, since 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-19/china-…

Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-hunger-games-and-the-law-of-merited-impossibility
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p54#a251219p54

Sources: Meta is set to seal an almost $30B financing package for its Louisiana data center; Meta will retain 20% ownership in the Hyperion data center site (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/blue…

Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Center Adds Trump's Name to Facade (Helene Cooper/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/19/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p60#a251219p60

Hut 8 partners with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, $7B lease, starting with 245MW of computing capacity (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/hut-8-sha

Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center using Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/ta…

Taiwan opens sovereign AI data center with Nvidia-powered supercomputer
Plans to expand capacity of Tainan hub sixfold by 2028 in partnership with Japan's NTT

Analysis: of the 8,808 global data centers in October 2025, ~7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in areas above 27C (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/

We mapped the world’s hottest data centers
In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot.

The EU's aim to triple AI data center capacity over the next five to seven years sparks water scarcity concerns, especially in water-stressed Southern Europe (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/water-ai-mega-projects-raise-alar…

Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions
Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class AI hub.