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"The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home"
this a good or bad idea i am wondering? 🤔 (and comments about why are welcome)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-newest-ai-boom-pitch-host-a-mini-data-center-…

The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.

As David Sacks steps back and Sriram Krishnan prepares to leave, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others are leading AI policy in the Trump administration (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/inside-white-house-ai-power-center

Inside the White House's AI power center
Like its AI policy, the Trump administration's AI team is taking shape on the fly.

Some decisions are so hard!
Brain rot or possible survival?
Help me with this!
Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warn…

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

Watch London DJ Lead a Fabulous ‘Day Rave’ at Senior Center to Combat Loneliness https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/watch-london-dj-lead-a-fabulous-day-rave-at-senior-center-to-combat-loneliness/

Watch London DJ Lead a Fabulous ‘Day Rave’ at Senior Center to Combat Loneliness
A spunky video captured popular DJ leading a ‘day rave’ inside a London senior center—on a mission to combat loneliness.

Axios: Trump-Branded Mega AI Center Is On The Rocks - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/axios-trump-branded-mega-ai-center-is-on-the-rocks/

A legal watchdog group asks bar associations in Maryland and DC to examine whether FCC Chairman Brendan Carr broke rules of conduct by targeting media outlets (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/05/legal-accountability-center-fcc-complaint-…

Bipartisan legal group complaint against FCC's Brendan Carr
A bipartisan legal group accused FCC Chairman Brendan Carr of abusing his authority and questioned whether he is still fit to hold a license to practice law.

'A Literal Coverup': What Is the Kennedy Center Hiding Behind Those Tarps? (Elizabeth Williamson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/politics/kennedy-center-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p82#a260619p82

The Obama Foundation has announced that the Obama Presidential Center will open on June 18 in Chicago’s South Side, with an invitation-only ceremony headlined by Stevie Wonder, U2, and Bruce Springsteen.
Joining the headliners are Bono, The Edge, Eddie Vedder, Common, Marc Anthony, Tems, The Roots, Christina Aguilera, John Legend, and Jennifer Hudson,
a roster that spans soul, rock, hip-hop, pop, and beyond.

Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, And U2 Headline The Obama Presidential Center Opening - That Eric Alper
A landmark moment in Chicago is arriving with a soundtrack to match. The Obama Foundation has announced that the Obama Presidential Center will open on June 18 in Chicago’s South Side, with a star-studded ceremony headlined by Stevie Wonder, U2, and Bruce Springsteen. The lineup runs deep with talent. Joining the headliners are Bono, The […]

Eine interaktive #Karte zeigt, wo neue #Rechenzentren in den USA entstehen.
Entwickelt von einer Studentin, bündelt sie Daten zu Bauprojekten, Gesetzen und lokalem Widerstand. Hintergrund sind Debatten über hohen

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard
A college student built a map showing the latest developments in data center policies in North America, Europe, and Asia.

A look into the “GREGOR Observations Center” GOC at MPS Göttingen during this month’s remote campaign at the GREGOR Solar Telescope, located on Tenerife. Many great active regions and sunspots, but unfortunately clouds obstructed our view. Hoping for better conditions for our August campaign together with Solar Orbiter 🛰️ 🔭🤞
#Sun

Cowboys Center Out For the Season After Neck Surgery https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/matt-hennessy-season-over-neck-injury/

The GGNRA Superintendent, David Smith, is having one of his public Office Hours at the Presidio Visitor Center tomorrow to talk about the NPS commemoration of America's 250th birthday. (And answer other park related questions,).
11am - noon, Sat, June 19
Presidio Visitors Center, 210 Lincoln Blvd, San Francisco,
If you're a fan of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this is a good chance to meet the Superintendent, hear about what's happening, and ask qu…

The GGNRA Superintendent, David Smith, is having one of his public Office Hours at the Presidio Visitor Center tomorrow to talk about the NPS commemoration of America's 250th birthday. (And answer other park related questions,).
11am - noon, Sat, June 19
Presidio Visitors Center, 210 Lincoln Blvd, San Francisco,
If you're a fan of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this is a good chance to meet the Superintendent, hear about what's happening, and ask qu…

Trump Administration Fails to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Atrazine https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-administration-fails-to-protect-endangered-wildlife-from-atrazine-2026-05-18…

Trump Administration Fails to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Atrazine
The Trump U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a review of atrazine that concludes the potent, cancer-linked endocrine disruptor does not pose an extinction risk to any threatened or endangered animals or plants. The court-ordered final review, which came in response to a legal challenge by the Center for Biological Diversity, was released to the Center late Friday afternoon. The controversial finding contrasts sharply with a 2021 Environmental Protection Agency determination that the …

"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.

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.

'Not the old sleepy agency': Energy regulator dives into fight over data center connections (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/ferc-regulato-fight-data-center-connections-00968621
http://www.memeorandum.com/260618/p146#a260618p146

On the Energy Distribution of the #GalacticCenter Excess' Sources: #DarkMatter in the Center of the #MilkyWay Not Ruled Out: https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/press-room/press-releases/detail/dark-matter-in-the-center-of-the-milky-way-not-ruled-out

A deep dive into Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Louisiana, expected to reach 5 GW of compute capacity; source: Meta plans to spend $200B on the project (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

"In the entire federal regulatory landscape governing the privacy of personal health information, there are two main frameworks. Crisis pregnancy centers are exempt from both."
Not good.
https://kimmienicole.substack.com/p/what-they-take-when-you-walk-in…

What They Take When You Walk In
The HIPAA blind spot, the database at the center of it, and the women whose names ended up on the open internet.

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

Ex-Lions center Frank Ragnow reflects on abrupt retirement, failed comeback: 'Everything happens for a reason' https://www.nfl.com/news/ex-lions-center-frank-ragnow-reflects-on-abrupt-retirement-failed-come…

The supreme court is expected to render at least one judgment today
as the term is set to come to an end later this month.
There are a series of cases yet to be decided that are relevant to Donald Trump,
including his attempt to limit #birthright citizenship
and plan to remove legal protection from Haitian and Syrian

Aldon Smith's brain donated to CTE Center as family's attorneys investigate his death at age 36 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/wcbk/aldon-smiths-brain-donated-to-cte-center-as-familys-attorneys-invest…

#Blame!, by Tsutomu Nihei
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/utah-just-approved-data-center-211500445.html

Utah just approved a data center twice the size of Manhattan that will consume more electricity than the entire state – local residents call decision to build water guzzling campus in drought-hit region ‘irresponsible and dangerous’
The proposed data center campus will consume 9GW of energy and threatens the stability of local ecosystems.

from my link log —
The earliest Unix code: an anniversary source code release.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-earliest-unix-code-an-anniversary-source-code-release/
saved 2019-10-18

The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release
In celebration of Unix’s 50th anniversary, the CHM Software History Center is delighted to make publicly accessible for the first time some of the earliest source code produced in the Unix story.

Two suspects dead in shooting at Islamic Center of San Diego in Clairemont (KGTV-TV)
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-police-respond-to-reported-active-shooter-incident-near-islamic-center-of-san-diego-in-clairemont
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p103#a260518p103

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.

Fundstück zum Rollback des Klimaschutzes in den USA, dass ich so nicht wusste:
Die Stilllegung von 34 Kraftwerksblöcken für fossile Brennstoffe in 15 Kraftwerken mit einer Gesamtleistung von 16,5 GW wurde 2025 aufgrund von Bedenken hinsichtlich der Versorgungssicherheit verschoben. Die 15 Kraftwerke, in denen die Betriebsdauer der Kraftwerksblöcke verlängert wurde, stießen im Jahr 2023 fast 65 Millionen Tonnen CO2-Äquivalent (CO2e) an Treibhausgasen aus.

Data center energy use is giving old, dirty power plants a new lease on life
The closures of 34 fossil fuel generators at 15 power plants have been postponed, in part to fuel the U.S. data center boom.

is this a bad volume level

(LinkedIn) In a review of 55 cases of cortical blindness, vivid imagery was repeatedly preserved despite complete or near-complete bilateral V1 damage. When imagery was impaired, lesions extended beyond V1, often into ventral temporal cortex. https://www.

TIL: Some of the estimates that are being passed around about the water consumption of (AI) data centers seem to be highly overstated.
Things I did not know about the high-end estimates being thrown around:
- Many of the most popular / graphic ones include not just the water used by the data center itself, but also the water used by the energy infrastructure used to power them. (Which is fair, but I did not know this, and it is often not framed that way).
- This includes stuf…

Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water use
And the media environment that didn't catch this is getting this issue wrong

It has begun 🌀

🛡️ #Vigilance is a driver-agnostic control center for #Laravel queues, jobs, commands & the scheduler — plus whole-app APM, tracing, metrics, alerts & uptime. Self-hosted & production-safe #PHP

Did AI replaced all the designers who can do proper vectors graphics?

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

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.

So amazing.
"Dr. Neumann died on Sunday at the Santa Clara Medical Center in Santa Clara, Calif. He was still working full time on a Pentagon-supported advanced computer security design, which is being adopted by companies such as Google and Microsoft. He was 93."

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.

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-…

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Apples neues Developer Center: Warum die Wahl auf Berlin fiel
Apple eröffnet in Berlin sein erstes europäisches Developer Center. Apple-VP Susan Prescott erläutert, warum es Berlin wurde, und wozu das Center noch dient.

Apples neues Developer Center: Warum die Wahl auf Berlin fiel
Apple eröffnet in Berlin sein erstes europäisches Developer Center. Apple-VP Susan Prescott erläutert, warum es Berlin wurde, und wozu das Center noch dient.

Veteran Adam Marshall testifies on his abduction by fascists while helping protestors as a street medic at Delaney Hall concentration camp (Newark, NJ • 06/17/26)
On Wednesday, June 17th, Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Committee on Homeland Security Democrats will hold a Democratic forum in Newark, New Jersey to conduct oversight of the Delaney Hall ICE detention center operated by GEO Group. At the forum, entitled “The Human Cost of Immigration Enforcement and Detention:…

DOJ Sides With Musk In Data Center Pollution Lawsuit - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/06/doj-sides-with-musk-in-data-center-pollution-lawsuit/

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?

Once in Russia, recruits are shown contracts in Russian,
threatened if they refused to sign,
have their passports taken away,
and are sent to the front lines with little training.
Get all the details here:
https://skywriter.blue/@africacenter.bsky.socia…

San Diego's Tragic Lesson About Terrorism (Juliette Kayyem/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/san-diego-islamic-center-mosque/687217/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p98#a260519p98

Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-letting-a-key-data-center-re…

The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire
The federal government is planning to let a rule regulating federal data center operations sunset in September with no replacement.

NFL owners expected to vote for Nashville as host city for Super Bowl in 2030, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-owners-vote-nashville-2030-super-bowl/

Teenage gunmen open fire on San Diego mosque, killing 3 men and then themselves (Julie Watson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/san-diego-islamic-center-shooting-af934ee29b397fba1495baf2529c49f8
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p125#a260518p125

Guards Are Now Protecting Kennedy Center Tarp - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/06/guards-are-now-protecting-kennedy-center-tarp/

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

Five dead, including two teenage suspects, at San Diego mosque shooting (San Diego Union-Tribune)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/18/police-investigating-active-shooter-report-at-islamic-center-of-san-diego-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p43#a260519p43

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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.

Watch: OTAs in motion | Raiders 2026 Offseason Program https://www.raiders.com/video/watch-raiders-2026-nfl-offseason-program-otas

UK-based Iceotope, which develops data center liquid cooling tech, raised a $26M Series B co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/14/data-center-cooling-tech-st…

Data center cooling tech startup Iceotope aims to scale after raising $26M - SiliconANGLE
Data center cooling tech startup Iceotope aims to scale after raising $26M - SiliconANGLE

House Democrats' Litigation Task Force Fights to Block Trump's Self-Dealing Settlement in Sham $10 Billion IRS Lawsuit (House Committee on the Judiciary)
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/house-democrats-litigation-task-force-fights-to-block-trump-s-self-dealing-settlement-in-sham-10-billion-irs-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p115#a260518p115

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

Browns' NFL Week 1 quarterback competition: Deshaun Watson favored to start opener over Shedeur Sanders

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/bro

The Crab Nebula sits some 6,500 light years from us in Taurus.
It’s what remains after a massive star exploded as a supernova in 1054 CE
— an event people on Earth actually saw and recorded.
Today, it’s known as a pulsar wind nebula, driven by the powerful winds of a fast-spinning pulsar at its center.
https://

Nereide (@drnereide.bsky.social)
1/8 This JWST’s NIRCam and MIRI stunning image reveals different structural details of the Crab Nebula (NGC 1952). Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim (Princeton University) https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/investigating-the-origins-of-the-crab-nebula-with-nasas-webb/ #galactic #universe #astronomy 🔭🧪⚛️

Australian data center operator NextDC plans to raise AU$1.5B in equity for its 350MW Sydney site rollout, and raises its FY26 capex by AU$300M to AU$2.7B-AU$3B (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

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Lots of easter eggs...
The Obama Presidential Center Unveils Official Portrait of President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2026/06/15/the-obama-presidential-center-unveils-officialportrait-of-president-obama-and-former-first-lady-michelle-obama/

Obama Presidential Center subcontractors claim they're owed millions and facing financial ruin ahead of grand opening (Michael Dorgan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/us-news/obama-presidential-center-subcontractors-claim-their-owed-millions-and-facing-financial-ruin-ahead-of-grand-opening/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p136#a260617p136

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

The US FERC approves new orders to fast-track data center power requests, aiming to handle them in 90 days, while bringing new requirements for AI hyperscalers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18/us-to-fast-t…

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/

Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planned a US IPO at a $20B valuation (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Everyone of the hand-picked board members has Trump brand kneepads...
Fresh off stripping Trump from its building, Kennedy Center creates new endowment bearing the president’s name | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kennedy-center-endowment-fund-b2996057.html

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.

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.

Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia's playbook to build an AI chip business, including providing $3.2B to fund a NY data center renting TPUs to Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/googl…

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

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.

Trump’s name has been removed from the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC,
hours after a judge rejected an "emergency appeal" to block the removal of the president’s name.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

‘The Win’: Trump Tried to Bury His Kennedy Center Humiliation Under a Tarp, But a Viral Video Filmed Inside Just Made Sure He'll Never Live This Down
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/06/14/the-win-trump-tried-to-bury-his-kennedy-center-humiliation-under-a-tarp-but-a-viral-video-filmed-inside-just-made-sure-hell-never-live-this-down/

Obama Presidential Center opening brings out all the stars (Carrie Shepherd/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2026/06/16/obama-presidential-center-opening-lineup-springsteen-stevie-wonder-common-jackson-park
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p134#a260616p134

Sources: Meta is under contract to buy roughly 1.6 GW of computing capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18/meta-strikes-new-ai-computi…

Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others (Summer Maxwell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18…

The De-Trumpification Process Begins Now (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/detrumpification-kennedy-center-ballroom-joyce-beatty-washington-monument-lincoln-memorial-arlington-national-cemetery-iran-war-surrender
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p64#a260617p64

The Kennedy Center is a reminder that we can win, it will be messy, and Trump will be petty
https://www.lawdork.com/p/kennedy-center-naming-trump-beatty-lessons

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.

Senator Susan Collins of Maine said in a new interview that she did not “regret” her vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018
but was “disappointed” that he later helped overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
“I do not regret that vote,” Ms. Collins, widely seen as the most vulnerable Republican senator up for re-election this year,
said when asked about the episode by News Center Maine.
“I do disagree with Justice Kavanaugh’s…

Susan Collins Laments Roe’s Fall but Doesn’t ‘Regret’ Confirming Kavanaugh
Ms. Collins, a Republican in Maine facing a tough re-election battle, defended her vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh as Democrats look to capitalize on it politically.

Kennedy Center to establish new endowment in Trump's name after court forces name change (Emma Nicholson/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-kennedy-center-fund-name-removed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260614/p66#a260614p66

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.

Sources: DayOne, the spinoff of China's largest data center operator GDS Holdings, plans dual IPO in Singapore and NY, seeking to raise $5B at a ~$20B valuation (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/602baf9f-9e66-428e-baec-6c2850d5fad5

Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sk-telecom-anthropic-mythos-export-controls/

The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.

Kennedy Center Begins Removing Trump's Name From Facade (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/arts/music/kennedy-center-trump-name.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260613/p9#a260613p9

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

Meta partners with Reliance to lease its first AI data center in India, with 168 MW capacity; separately, Meta says it has contracted ~1GW of renewable energy (Meta Newsroom)
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-partners-with-reliance-on-ai…

Meta Partners With Reliance on AI-Enabled Data Center in India
We've enetered an agreement with Reliance Industries to lease our first ever AI-enabled data center in India.

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-t…

OpenAI in Talks to Lease 10 Gigawatt Ohio Data Center with Backing From Nvidia
OpenAI is in advanced negotiations to lease a proposed 10 gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The campus under discussion would be among the ...

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

A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/0…

Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact
More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults.

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.

Gallup: 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than Republicans (Tim Craig/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026

7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities
The survey found that Republicans and Democrats are uncomfortable living near a data center, but opposition is especially intense among Democrats.

Sources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from PE firms including Brookfield and KKR at a $50B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/data-center-developer-s…

Data Center Developer Switch in Talks to Raise Billions at $50 Billion-Plus Valuation
Data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50 billion, as it seeks to capitalize on soaring demand for the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Brookfield Asset Management, ...

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…

Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions (David Phelan/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2

Apple To Open Europe’s First Developer Center In Berlin Ahead Of WWDC 2026
Later this year, Apple will open its first-ever European Developer Center. Here’s what it’s all about.