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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/997573/virginia-governor-spanberger-da…

Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed an executive order banning NDAs for data center development and creating an AI task force.

A long-planned vigil at the Kennedy Center
is expected to draw a significant crowd Friday night,
capping a week in which the performing arts center closed its doors,
and Donald Trump indicated the building may be “ripped down” if his name isn’t added to the institution.

The event, scheduled weeks ago by an advocacy organization called
"Hands Off the Arts", intends to start with a 6:30 p.m. rally featuring musical performances and speeches by former an…

Vigil at the Kennedy Center expected to draw about 1,000 supporters
The event, scheduled weeks ago by an advocacy organization called Hands Off the Arts, intends to start with a 6:30 p.m. rally.

CASCADIA JOURNAL
One day, the Northwest Detention Center will be shut down
The Tacoma prison camp is a grim place, situated between a maze of railroad tracks and surrounded by razor wire. It looks exactly like what it is: a concentration camp where 1,500 people are held, many indefinitely.

One day, the Northwest Detention Center will be shut down
The Tacoma prison camp is a grim place, situated between a maze of railroad tracks and surrounded by razor wire. It looks exactly like what it is: a concentration camp where 1,500 people are held, many indefinitely.

30 Jahre ITSG: Wie aus einem Trust Center ein zentraler IT-Dienstleister wurde
ITSG feiert 30 Jahre. Ein Interview über den Datenaustausch, IT-Sicherheit und Strategien zu KI und Open Source.

30 Jahre ITSG: Wie aus einem Trust Center ein zentraler IT-Dienstleister wurde
ITSG feiert 30 Jahre. Ein Interview über den Datenaustausch, IT-Sicherheit und Strategien zu KI und Open Source.

NFL Network: Chargers C Tyler Biadasz out indefinitely after injuring ACL during practice https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-center-tyler-biadasz-out-indefinitely-acl

Fuck right off! #FuckAI #USPol #Oklahoma
🖕🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕
Proposed Enid data center project could bring $35 billion investment - News9.com

Proposed Enid data center project could bring $35 billion investment
The proposed 1,735-acre development would include four data center campuses, up to 3.3 gigawatts of on-site power generation and infrastructure tied to Vance Air Force Base.

Sources: Nvidia is working as a matchmaker to connect companies holding its GPUs with Nordic data center operators that have available capacity to deploy them (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/nvidia-nordic-ai-data-centers.html

Nvidia plays matchmaker in Nordics, sources tell CNBC, as AI data center deals boom in region
Nvidia is trying to connect GPU customers with Nordic data-center operators as cheap power and available land fuel the region’s AI infrastructure boom.

How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/magazine/data-center-heist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.

"Carbon storage could curb more than 90% of AI data center emissions, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Carbon storage could curb more than 90% of AI data center emissions, study finds
As artificial intelligence accelerates demand for computing power across the U.S., a new study co-authored by Hon Chung Lau, adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University and founder of Low Carbon Energies LLC, has found that carbon capture and storage could play a major role in limiting the climate impact of data centers.

Tyler Biadasz injury: Chargers center carted off with left leg injury in massive blow to oft-injured line

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tyler-biadasz-injury…

Silent Calls: Was gegen belästigende Anrufe hilft
Niemand meldet sich, obwohl das Telefon klingelt? Call-Center rufen zu unmöglichen Zeiten an? Diese Probleme kennen viele Menschen – sie können sich wehren.
https://www.…

Silent Calls: Was gegen belästigende Anrufe hilft
Niemand meldet sich, obwohl das Telefon klingelt? Call-Center rufen zu unmöglichen Zeiten an? Diese Probleme kennen viele Menschen – sie können sich wehren.

Photo of Trump shows printout that seems to refer to Kennedy Center demolition

The image surfaced hours after the president warned that the performing arts venue could eventually be “ripped down” without his administration’s intervention.
Lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), a Kennedy Center trustee challenging Trump’s transformation of the institution, filed a copy in federal court Thursday

Photo of Trump shows printout that seems to refer to Kennedy Center demolition
The image surfaced hours after the president warned that the performing arts venue could eventually be “ripped down” without his administration’s intervention. Lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), a Kennedy Center trustee challenging Trump’s transformation of the institution, filed a copy in federal court Thursday.

Memo: GOP asks AI companies to stem the backlash against data centers, saying the issue could kill the party's chances of holding a vital Senate seat in Ohio (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-memo-ai-election

Exclusive: GOP issues stark warning to AI companies
"This has become a sleeper issue for the entire election cycle," Senate Republicans' committee says.

Ethics disclosures show 7 out of 10 FCC commissioners since 2016 have accepted Kennedy Center tickets worth thousands courtesy of CBS or its parent company (Corey G. Johnson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/paramount-mergers-fcc-kennedy-center-gala

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

A Norwegian entrepreneur walked out after being asked a single question during a community consultation on his proposed AI data center in an exurban town in the #Philippines. 🇵🇭
https://www.

AI data center pitch in Oton ends in insults, walkout
OTON, Iloilo — A public consultation on a proposed artificial intelligence (AI) data center here broke down on Friday, Aug. 14, after the Norwegian proponent wa

Mela is listening to a podcast: Why America at 250 Still Cannot Face Slavery – Reveal – The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id886009669

Darth #Trump - was für ein krimineller #Schmock
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Streit um Kultureinrichtung: Trump verweigert Kennedy Center Renovierung
Das Kennedy Center ist nach einem Sturm in schlechtem Zustand. Es müsste dringend renoviert werden. Doch US-Präsident Trump will nur zustimmen, wenn er anschließend wieder seinen Namen am Gebäude anbringen darf.

George W. Bush gifts Michelle Obama a tin of Altoids at Obama Center opening in an ode to their friendship (Nicole Brown Chau/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-w-bush-michelle-obama-altoids-friendship/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p79#a260619p79

I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than 10
minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't.
-- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center

Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes https://www.404media.co/ed-sheeran-macklemore-open-for-legends-contest-guitar-center/

Whiteboard illustrating talk at Cornell Center for Entrepreneurship in Kennedy Hall
#photo #photography #cornell

The good news is that Diamond Plus Documentary published all 22 episodes of "The Center Seat", a fun, detailed #StarTrek documentary series.
The bad news is they hid 7 episodes for some reason but here are the 15 that are public.
▶️ The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Orange Day-Lily. Mary & Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August 2026. Fujifilm X100VI. #ranchopalosverdes #flower #bloomscrolling

Amazon will invest in a gas-burning power plant in Texas, which will power a new data center. That one plant will produce more carbon dioxide than countries such as Switzerland, Ireland or Bulgaria.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligen…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

I'm so old I remember when Republicans would be incensed about this sort of thing.
https://apnews.com/article/treasury-national-debt-limit-a27a8d3651ff810b25c610d3e1b6259d

Community services we need more of:
Tenderloin teens find community, safety at violence prevention center
https://missionlocal.org/2026/09/tenderloins-youth-violence-prevention-program/

Tenderloin’s new youth violence prevention program provides safe space, motivation, teens say
The Tenderloin's first youth violence prevention center has been open for six months — here's its success thus far.

Community services we need more of:
Tenderloin teens find community, safety at violence prevention center
https://missionlocal.org/2026/09/tenderloins-youth-violence-prevention-program/

Tenderloin’s new youth violence prevention program provides safe space, motivation, teens say
The Tenderloin's first youth violence prevention center has been open for six months — here's its success thus far.

"xAI has quietly built a massive battery at its Memphis data center hub"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

xAI has quietly built a massive battery at its Memphis data center hub
Company and utility execs called it the nation’s biggest battery, but details are scant. A July satellite image shows 720 Tesla Megapacks at the…

In June, NYS Legislature passed 1-year data center moratorium:
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2026/06/05/data-center-moratorium-approved-
With this on her desk, NYS governor instead issued less robust 1-…

New York state Legislature passes 1-year data center moratorium
Capital Tonight broke down the day’s events and looked ahead to Friday, when the Assembly is expected to wrap up.

The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers, by a vote of 417-3 (Justin Papp/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/congress-ai-data-center-utility-costs.html

House advances bill to rein in AI data center utility costs
The bipartisan legislation would create a regulatory framework states could adopt to prevent data center-related energy costs from being passed on to consumers.

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

I don't know if the judge will do it, but...
Turf every trustee and appoint a new trustee to oversee the 'bankruptcy'. Trustee engages engineers, electricians and plumbers for a full review of the facility. Full forensic audit of the books.
https://www.ctvnews.ca…

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Harris Hits: David Montgomery Runs Wild as Texans and Raiders Open Joint Practices https://www.houstontexans.com/news/harris-hits-david-montgomery-runs-wild-as-texans-and-raiders-open-joint-practices

"they found that Big Oil’s use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI’s data centers."
https://heated.world/p/ais-climate-problem-is-worse-than
All AI services are actively destructive and s…

AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought
A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials (Allan Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-elec

Gov. Josh Shapiro issues a new executive order on data centers in Pennsylvania
Shapiro, a potential Democratic 2028 contender, earlier welcomed data center developments. His new executive order takes a starkly different tone toward the industry.

'Detailfotografie' #FotoVorschlag
Oh I posted this one recently but I think it also fits very well for the 'details' topic. And it has some waterdrops to cool your timeline during the heat ;)
Happy Saturday my #photography friends

Abu Dhabi broke ground on Dar al Funoon (House of the Arts),
a major performing arts center on Saadiyat Island set to open by 2030.
Designed by the late architect Frank Gehry,
it will seat over 6,000 patrons across a main 2,000-seat multipurpose hall,
a 3,500-seat amphitheater,
and smaller performance venues

Construction Begins on Frank Gehry's Dar al Funoon Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Center
Construction has started on Dar al Funoon Abu Dhabi, one of Frank Gehry's final works, a performing arts hub opening in 2030 on Saadiyat Island.

Microsoft adds funding to the AP Fund for Journalism, enabling APFJ to provide 10 local newsrooms in Washington state with AP elections coverage and resources (The Associated Press)
https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-rele

AP Fund for Journalism, Microsoft expand election resources for Washington newsrooms | The Associated Press
AP Fund for Journalism (APFJ) today announced funding from Microsoft to strengthen the local news ecosystem in Washington state ahead of the 2026 midterm

This feels like a postmodern throwing of the gauntlet
If it's not considered a word, but I can make a meme of it, is it really unmemeable?

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Put Trump Impeach Front & Center NOW! Before The Midterms!
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"Trekkie"... "Trekker"... whatever. I always found this insecure delineation from the 80s laughable.
▶️ Why Did Leonard Nimoy Refuse to Return as Spock? - The Center Seat
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Loc8fO4SiIU&si=tzgqdj3ExNl8ZTgT
…

A profile of businessman Sebastian Rucci, whose past ventures were subject to legal probes, as he bids to build California's biggest data center, a $10B project (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Brian Flores-Ben Johnson showdown takes center stage in Vikings-Bears Week 2 matchup https://www.nfl.com/news/brian-flores-ben-johnson-showdown-takes-center-stage-in-vikings-bears-week-2-matchup

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The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the "unaccountable" buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-data-center-…

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

LIVE: "HANDS OFF THE ARTS" Kennedy Center protest
- FOX 5 DC
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xoZYttrLOSU&ra=m

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Ashton Jeanty gives back to community ahead of 2nd season with Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ashton-jeanty-gives-back-to-community-ahead-of-2nd-season-with-raiders-3852000/

OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on controversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood
— the flow of donor dollars.
Not because it was convicted or because the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status.
Not even because individual donors stopped writing checks.
Instead, three Wall-Street-affiliated grantmaking giants each made a decision,
one they ref…

Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors and the public in the dark.

Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (Tobias Burns/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-fin

Nvidia financing initiative follows SEC guidance that takes sponsors off the hook for data center investments
Recent SEC instructions on data center bonds appear applicable to the recent Nvidia financing move, lawyers say.

The Cable Center sells its 75K-square-foot Denver headquarters for $19.5M, as cord-cutting and media consolidation cause financial strain for the nonprofit (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/1…

They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.
They set out to celebrate the power and prestige of an industry that spanned MTV, HBO and Nickelodeon. Now, as cable’s fortunes have waned, the institution is changing, too.

The midterm elections are less than two months away,
but some states begin early voting today,
marking the start of a crucial stretch of campaigning for control of Congress.
Virginia begins early in-person voting,
while voters in Minnesota, Idaho and South Dakota can cast absentee ballots in person,
as the campaign turns increasingly on the cost of living and the continuing war in Iran.
High gas prices and low approval ratings are adding to the challenges f…

Early voting begins in midterms as campaign shifts focus to cost of living and Iran war – US politics live
Campaigning or control of Congress is expected to ramp up as some states open early voting

"Data center proposals keep coming to Pennsylvania. A 41,000-person Facebook group leads the fight against them"
#US #USA #America

The 41,000-person Facebook group fighting data centers in Pennsylvania
In response to souring public opinion on data centers, Pennsylvanians have flocked to grassroots Facebook groups.

Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to $3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-talks…

Nvidia in Talks to Invest $3 Billion in SB Energy as Part of OpenAI Data Center Deal
Nvidia is in talks to invest as much as $3 billion in SB Energy, the Softbank Group-backed developer of a massive planned Ohio data center project for OpenAI, according to people familiar with the discussions. The investment is being discussed as part of Nvidia’s negotiations with OpenAI and SB ...

TIL of the top 10 highest streamed Star Trek episodes, 6 are from Voyager - including #1.
▶️ Star Trek’s Most Risky Casting Decisions | The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-8El149ETI8&si=8wfD9XPJR4cchH6s

Here’s what you have to understand:
In Donald Trump’s America, all types of protest are unacceptable.
And if he gets his way, everyone involved in either of them could face the same fate.
Trump is currently at war with the left.
Antifa, communists, radical leftist agitators
— call them what you will, he’s coming for them.
But he’s also making plans to come for the center:
attacking nonprofit groups,
suing the press,
and making every ef…

How Trump’s War on the Left Will Come for the Center
The far-left activists catching charges set a dangerous precedent for mainstream liberals.

Created by Congress in 1996,
the Alien Terrorist Removal Court,
has five federal judges appointed by the Chief Justice,
“to review applications for the removal from the United States of alien terrorists.”
The attorney general submits applications for removal to the court under seal.
According to the Federal Judicial Center, it has never received an application since its founding.
-- Until this week.
According to a court order posted on the newly-cr…

Alien Terrorist Removal Court Has Its First Case
Created in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court has never reviewed an application. Until now

NFL Network: Lions center Cade Mays will miss 8-10 weeks with wrist injury https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-network-lions-center-cade-mays-will-miss-8-10-weeks-with-wrist-injury

Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (Financial Times)

Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.…

Sources: data center operator Switch has hired investment banks for a US IPO that could raise up to $10B and value it at $80B, set for as soon as Q4 (Reuters)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Data center firm Switch taps banks for IPO that could value it up to $80 billion
Data center operator Switch is preparing for a significant initial public offering. This offering could potentially raise up to ten billion dollars soon. The company is valued at nearly eighty billion dollars, including its debt. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are leading the underwriting process for this debut. This move highlights strong investor interest in AI infrastructure companies.

Donald Trump threatened to cancel a planned renovation of the Kennedy Center if federal courts did not allow his name to be placed on the front of the building.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said the board (which he has appointed)
voted “almost unanimously” to close the riverside landmark “for Safety reasons,
and so that I can begin the process of Reconstruction”.
He then said he would block a $257m renovation project that he had previously touted to address what the …

Kennedy Center to close as Trump threatens to block repairs over name dispute
President says he will block renovation project unless court decision to bar his name from being added is overturned

AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions (Alexander Martin/The Record)
https://therecord.media/irregular-ai-hacking-model-blog

Irregular faces criticism over ‘spin’ in AI hacking postmortem
The company at the center of a series of incidents in which AI models compromised real-world computer systems during security evaluations is facing criticism after the release of a report that security experts say leaves key questions unanswered.

The Kennedy Center board votes to close for 2 years and add a new inscription to the facade:
“Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump,”
according to the New York Times.
The move appears to be an attempt to sidestep U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper’s ruling that the law “makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy.”

Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to $105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests $1.5B in SB Energy (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-…

Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount.

Conflict of Interest:
Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts,
FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality
and should avoid acting on Paramount’s pending merger.
Mixing Business and Pleasure:
After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took …

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new permits for hyperscale data centers exceeding 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965110/new-york-ai-data-center-moratorium

New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order enacting a one-year moratorium on new data center developments over 50 megawatts.

US data center bans top 500, up from 300 in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development (Shane Burke/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/data-center-bans-top-500-new…

Data Center Bans Top 500 as New York, Texas Join Pushback
Local government resistance to data center development accelerated this summer, a warning sign for big AI companies such as Anthropic, Google and OpenAI that are pinning their compute ambitions on data center expansion. In July alone, more than 150 towns and counties passed temporary or ...

Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water.
One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an AI data center so enormous that it could easily become 💥the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
According to the New York Times, Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of ene…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

A look back at the 2007 heist of a Verizon data center in London, highlighting the role of physical data security as cyber defenses grow more sophisticated (Nathaniel Rich/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/magazin

How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.

Federal Communications Commissioner Olivia Trusty
cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.
Now, the commissioner and a guest enjoyed the star-studded celebration thanks to tickets gifted to her by Paramount worth more than $12,000, according to ethics disclosure records obtained by ProPublica.
The other commissioner who approved the merger watched from a prized perch.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr and his wife sat in a privat…

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments (Kiranjeet Kaur/IDC)
https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/china-smartphone-market-decline…

Why Huawei and Apple Grew While China’s Smartphone Market Fell Again in Q2 2026
China smartphone shipments fell 4.3% in Q2 2026 while Huawei and Apple grew nearly 20% each. IDC breaks down the vendor shift and outlook.

A hurricane warning was issued for the Big Island,
and a tropical storm warning was in effect for Maui County, which includes the islands of Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe
Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen to a hurricane before reaching Hawaii’s Big Island this weekend, forecasters said Friday,
bringing heavy rains that can cause destructive flooding and strong winds that can fuel wildfires.
The National Hurricane Center said Lala should be at hurrica…

Tropical Storm Lala expected to become hurricane near Hawaii
Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches Hawaii's Big Island. The National Hurricane Center predicts that it could be at hurricane status by early Saturday. If it makes landfall as a hurricane, it would be the first to do so since 1871. Forecasters issued a hurricane warning for the island on Friday. Officials and residents prepared for potential impacts including heavy rain and strong winds. Some areas could see up to 25 inches of rain. Shelters have been…

Sources: Meta and BlackRock's $14B El Paso data center project is not insured against total loss, exposing lenders to credit risks and big potential liabilities (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/adeca274-67a3-4ee8-94f1-f43e4f28be97

Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/08/17/crusoe-ipo-jpm-ms-gs-bofa

Scoop: Data center developer Crusoe in IPO talks
It's meeting with at least four banks.

Sources: SpaceX is in talks with the DOD about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running AI models (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spacex-in-talk

Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others (Giacomo Lee/SDxCentral)
https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/nvidia-ai-interconnect-darling…

Nvidia AI interconnect darling bags $136M funding from Arm, others
Data center interconnect disruptor Point2 Technology celebrates Series B success

How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/b…

Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about "losing the AI race" to China as K3 is strong but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities (Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/kimi-k3-is-no-reason-for…

Open-source Kimi K3 model is no reason for China panic
Transformer Weekly: NY data center moratorium, NDAA export controls and Amodei’s $1m to safety super PAC

Sources: multiple GOP governors and large utilities are expected to join Trump's pledge for data center developers to cover their energy use and infrastructure (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/14/gop-governors-utilit…

A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: populations in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than growth (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/09/17/globall…

Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth
Amid a mix of concern and excitement about AI, a 37-country survey finds pessimism about its potential impact on jobs and economic inequality.

Survey: in a first, Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life, at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Democrats are now more worried than Republicans about AI and its impact on jobs
In another shift, Democrats are now more likely than Republicans to predict that AI will lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years (75% vs. 68%).

Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions (Amy Harder/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/tech-giants-launch-flexible-power-coa…

Tech giants launch flexible-power coalition for data centers
A new coalition is seeking a triple win for a data center industry that lately has struggled to notch any wins at all.

Generac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon with up to $8B worth of backup generators for data centers and grants Amazon a warrant for up to a 2.6% stake (Michelle Ma/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Anthropic signs a 20-year, $19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity, with the first power delivery in H2 2027 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/anthropic-terawulf-data-center-ai.html

Anthropic signs lease for TeraWulf data center in Kentucky
TeraWulf is a crytpo mining company that has pivoted to AI data center infrastructure. Its stock is up more than 80% this year.

Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/meta-is-building-its-first-big…

Meta is building its first big Canadian data center as AI expansion crosses the border
Meta is building its first big Canadian data center as AI expansion crosses the border.

Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate…

New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

Sources: Australian data center provider Firmus is seeking to raise up to $5B in an IPO at the end of October, in one of the largest-ever IPOs in Australia (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town of 8,500 that benefited from a data center boom as its poverty rate fell from 29.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2024 (Nathaniel Meyersohn/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/08/11/business/data-centers-ai-economy

‘Brand-new everything’: How data centers transformed this small town’s economy
A $15 million aquatic center with a six-lane pool, waterslides and a lazy river opened in Quincy, Washington, a few weeks ago.

Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…

Data center company Csquare raises $1.05B in its US IPO, selling 50M shares at $21 each, below its marketed range of $23 to $27, valuing the company at ~$3.25B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brookfi…

The global AI boom has thrust CPUs back into the spotlight as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others challenge Intel and AMD in the AI data center CPU market (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/tech-asia/why-cpus-are-n…

Why CPUs are now at the center of the AI race
US chipmakers lead, but China players aim to increase local market share

Qualcomm signs a deal with Amazon to provide "multiple generations of customized silicon" to help build AWS' AI infrastructure; QCOM jumps 6% (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/08/qualcomm-amazon-data-center-infrastructure-deal.ht…

Qualcomm issues Amazon warrants to acquire $4 billion worth of chipmaker's stock as part of AI infrastructure deal
Qualcomm is trying to move into the data center business, where Nvidia has been the dominant player in the AI boom.

Delos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/delos-dat

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (Washington Post)

The unexpected issue dividing parties and midterms candidates
More candidates talk about artificial intelligence or data centers on their campaign websites than mention Israel or manufacturing, according to a Post analysis.