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Sources: data center startup Crusoe is arranging an employee share sale involving ~$120M worth of shares that values it at ~$13B, up from $10B just weeks ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-data-cen…

OpenAI’s Data Center Partner Nears $120 Million Stock Sale For Its Employees
Crusoe, a startup developing a large data center in Texas for Oracle and OpenAI, is arranging an employee share sale that values the seven-year-old firm at around $13 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction. The deal involves selling around $120 million worth of ...

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg 
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

ICE to open call center to help track migrant children for removal (Laura Romero/Reuters)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-open-call-center-track-migrant-children-removal/story?id=127238019
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p70#a251106p70

The Dedication of Dick Cass Field https://www.baltimoreravens.com/video/dick-cass-field-boys-girls-club-hilton-recreation-center-dedication

"Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions"
#Google #Emissions #Climate

Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly running, these buildings can use anywhere from a few megawatts of power for a small data center to more than 100 megawatts for a hyperscale data center. To put that in perspective, the average large natural gas power plant built in the U.S. generates less than 1,000 megawatts.

Fantasy football pickups: Rico Dowdle takes center stage https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46510273/fantasy-football-free-agent-pickups-waiver-wire-nfl-week-6

Missing Beats: Dark Matter Silences Short-Period Cepheids in the Galactic Center
Djuna Croon, Tim Linden, Jeremy Sakstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02641 https://

Missing Beats: Dark Matter Silences Short-Period Cepheids in the Galactic Center
Upcoming near-infrared facilities (e.g., JWST/NIRCam, ELT/MICADO) will dramatically increase the detectability of galactic center Cepheids despite extreme extinction at optical wavelengths. In this work, we study the impact of dark matter (DM) annihilation on Cepheid stars in the inner parsec of the Milky Way. We show that at densities $ρ\sim 10^5 \, \text{GeV} \, \text{cm}^{-3}$, blue-loop evolution can be suppressed, preventing the formation of low-mass ($3$-$6 \, M_\odot$) short-period ($1$…

"Other scrap yard owners across Southern California have also been burglarized in similar fashion"
Burglars break into recycling center business in downtown LA – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/burglars-break-into-recycling-center-business-in-downtown-la/3811819/

Inside Trump's transformation of the Kennedy Center (Betsy Klein/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/06/politics/trump-kennedy-center-takeover
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p65#a251206p65

Characterizing the variability of a sample of massive stars in eclipsing binaries
C. I. Eze (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria), G. Handler (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland), F. Kahraman Ali\c{c}avu\c{s} (\c{C}anakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Sciences, Physics Department, \c{C}anakkale, T\"urkiye), T. Pawar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center,…

Characterizing the variability of a sample of massive stars in eclipsing binaries
Massive stars exhibit a perplexing mismatch between their inferred masses from different observational techniques, posing a significant challenge to our understanding of stellar evolution and structure. This discrepancy is believed to be caused by the underestimation of the convective core masses. The efficiency of such measurement is usually impaired by a lot of processes at work in the interior of the stars such as convective core overshooting and interior rotation. By integrating the precisi…

A Conformal Prediction-Based Chance-Constrained Programming Approach for 24/7 Carbon-Free Data Center Operation Scheduling
Yijie Yang, Jian Shi, Dan Wang, Chenye Wu, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04053

A Conformal Prediction-Based Chance-Constrained Programming Approach for 24/7 Carbon-Free Data Center Operation Scheduling
The rapid growth of AI applications is dramatically increasing data center energy demand, exacerbating carbon emissions, and necessitating a shift towards 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE). Unlike traditional annual energy matching, 24/7 CFE requires matching real-time electricity consumption with clean energy generation every hour, presenting significant challenges due to the inherent variability and forecasting errors of renewable energy sources. Traditional robust and data-driven optimization me…

Around the center
Maria Gorelik, Vladimir Hinich, Vera Serganova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03928 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03928

Around the center
The center of a semisimple Lie algebra can be described as the algebra of W-invariant functions on the dual of the Cartan subalgebra. The centers of many Lie superalgebras have a similar description, but the defining equivalence relation on the dual of the Cartan subalgebra is not given by a finite group action. Lagrangian equivalence relations that we introduce generalize the action of a subgroup of the orthogonal group. Using them, we present a new proof of a result by Ian Musson about the ce…

Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Bottlenecks in data center construction threaten Japan's AI ambitions
Labor shortages, rising costs and outdated building processes delay construction

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

New military training center for Ukrainian, NATO troops opens in Poland: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/03/new-military-training-center-for.html

Aerial photos have revealed new paving at the Everglades Detention Center,
which violates a court order that temporarily halted construction.
We must protect the Everglades. Climate justice is social justice. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean

Wet Tribe (@wettribe.bsky.social)
Aerial photos have revealed new paving at the Everglades Detention Center, which violates a court order that temporarily halted construction. We must protect the Everglades. Climate justice is social justice. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean

Tow Center identifies eight X bot accounts that use X's AI Note Writer API to write between 5% to 10% of the Community Notes visible to the public each day (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/x-twitter-ai-

X is using AI fact-checkers.
Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.”

Single-Rod Brachiation Robot: Mechatronic Control Design and Validation of Prejump Phases
Juraj Lieskovsk\'y, Hijiri Akahane, Aoto Osawa, Jaroslav Bu\v{s}ek, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tom\'a\v{s} Vyhl\'idal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02946

Single-Rod Brachiation Robot: Mechatronic Control Design and Validation of Prejump Phases
A complete mechatronic design of a minimal configuration brachiation robot is presented. The robot consists of a single rigid rod with gripper mechanisms attached to both ends. The grippers are used to hang the robot on a horizontal bar on which it swings or rotates. The motion is imposed by repositioning the robot's center of mass, which is performed using a crank-slide mechanism. Based on a non-linear model, an optimal control strategy is proposed, for repositioning the center of mass in a ba…

For a few years I had an office in the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center at MIT. Here are some photos I took on a sunny autumn day using a film camera in 2005. This building had a lot of problems but it definitely made a statement. #architecture #FrankGehry

Line emission search from DM annihilation in the Galactic Center with LST-1
Abhishek Abhishek (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Shotaro Abe (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Tomohiro Inada (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Sofia Ventura (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Michele Doro (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Masahiro Teshima (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Gaia Verna (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project)

Line emission search from DM annihilation in the Galactic Center with LST-1
Dark Matter remains a great mystery in modern physics. Among various candidates, the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) scenario stands out and is under extensive study. The detection of the hypothetical gamma-ray emission from WIMP annihilation could act as a direct probe of electroweak-scale interactions, complementing DM collider searches and other direct DM detection techniques. At very high energies (VHE), WIMP self-annihilation is expected to produce gamma rays together with oth…

In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

Perdonen la expresión, pero creo que esto se lleva el premio como la mayor "lamida de bolas" del año. Y la mšs patética también.
https://www.infobae.com/estados-unidos/2025/12…

Donald Trump's Kennedy Center is showier, emptier and more political (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/12/07/trump-kennedy-center/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p13#a251207p13

It's a weird quirk of nationalism that you can be executed for treason against your country's *government*, but not its land. Sure, spill all the oil, pollute the air, frack away until the water is undrinkable and tremors destroy structures, build an olympic training center on that national forest reserve; that'll be a slap on the wrist and maaaaaaaybe a small fine.
Countries are super protective of their borders, you'd think they would want to preserve the land within …

I just learned that Frank Gehry passed away. 😔
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
One of his buildings that I hope to visit is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 🇪🇸. I looked at the list of buildings he designed and the only o…

For fellow art-poetry nerds/lovers, Édouard Glissant’s art collection is coming to New York.
https://www.cara-nyc.org/program/exhibitions/the-earth-the-fire-the-water-and-the-winds-for-a-museum-of-errantr…

A look at OpenAI's search for the sites of its Stargate data centers in the US; OpenAI has received 800 applications since January and has 20 finalist sites (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/05/openai-stargate…

This Meta alum has spent 10 months leading OpenAI's nationwide hunt for its Stargate data centers
OpenAI's effort to build a massive industrial base to power the future of artificial intelligence is being led by Keith Heyde.

Yes, I will be there -The Muni Now, Muni Forever folks have an excellent proposal that improves on the Mayor's proposal, lowering costs for all but the very wealthiest and the largest, most expensive office buildings compared to what the Mayor wants to do. AND it raises more money. Why won't #MayorLurie adopt it?

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
CHECHNYA FSB CENTER IN GROZNY STRUCK: #PUTIN #KADYROV IN SHOCK Vlog 1249: War in

We could have had a lukewarm meh center government but no, we had to get whatever this apocalyptic shit is because people had to be racist and misogynist
Great stuff

Trump awards medals to Kennedy Center honorees in Oval Office ceremony (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/07/trump-awards-medals-to-kennedy-center-honorees-in-oval-office-ceremony-00679808
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p19#a251207p19

On stability of restricted center properties and continuity of restricted center map under $\ell_p$-direct sum
Gayathri P, V Thota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01955 https://

On stability of restricted center properties and continuity of restricted center map under $\ell_p$-direct sum
We study the stability of various restricted center properties and certain continuity properties of the restricted center map. We observe that restricted center property, property-$(P_1)$ and semi-continuity properties of the restricted center map are preserved under $\ell_p$-direct sum $(1 \leq p < \infty).$ It is shown that property-$(P_2)$ is stable under finite $\ell_p$-direct sum, but not under infinite $\ell_p$-direct sum. Additionally, we introduce a notion called property-$(lP_2)$ as a …

Jonathan Taylor and Ashton Jeanty expected to take center stage as Colts and Raiders try to rebound https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/jonathan-taylor-and-ashton-jeanty-expected-to-take-center-stage-as-c…

Es gibt einen neuen Dokfilm über die Proteste gegen die WTO-Tagung 1999 in Seattle, Auftakt der Anti-Globalisierungsbewegung und auch der Start von #Indymedia vor 26 Jahren.
Im Interview mit @… redet der Filmemache auch über die Rolle, die…

A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his role in the company's $1.4T infrastructure buildout that's required to reach AGI (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/openai-greg-brockman-ai-infrastructure-data-c…

Meet OpenAI’s master builder: Greg Brockman is steering a $1.4 trillion infrastructure surge with stakes that go far beyond AI
As OpenAI’s president, Brockman is focused on “completing the mission” of moving beyond AI to artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Moody Urbanity - Up ☁️
情绪化城市 - 上面 ☁️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Financial well-being has an outsize imprint on older Americans’ quality of life
-- affecting their physical health, social life and even cognitive skills.

Low-income seniors are more likely to experience mental confusion,
spend less time pursuing hobbies,
and face difficulties with everyday tasks such as climbing stairs and grocery shopping,
compared with their more affluent counterparts

What a poll of 9,000 adults reveals about aging in America
A Pew Research Center survey reveals how income levels can affect someone’s physical health, social life and even cognitive skills in retirement.

Trump awards medals to the Kennedy Center honorees in an Oval Office ceremony (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-honorees-awards-ceremony-medal-5f4b60fb514f978d34e3468a711f0132
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p55#a251206p55

We're halfway through the post-Thanksgiving week, and the cyber news machine is cranking back up again, so check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Indian government retreats from spy app mandate,
--US DOJ seizes Myanmar scam center website,
--Coupang execs sold company stock before breach was announced,
--Coupang is reviewing compensation for breach victims,
--Korea's Gmarket hit by string of una…

Indian government retreats from spy app mandate
US DOJ seizes Myanmar scam center website, Coupang execs sold company stock before breach was announced, Coupang is reviewing compensation for breach victims, Korea's Gmarket hit by string of unauthorized payments, Japan's Askul internet service resumes one month post-breach, much more

Chancellor Thomas Gibson is offering a challenge to #UWM faculty and staff: Raise a total of $1,000 by the end of this week, and he will match with a $1,000 gift. Visits to the UWM food pantry rose more than 41% from September to October, as the federal government shutdown cut paychecks and certain government benefits and demand is expected to spike in the coming days as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are interrupted.
It's a good cause.
#Milwaukee

'Obviously unconstitutional': Judge slams ICE for 'disgusting' detention center conditions - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-detention-centers-conditions/

Just registered for this, it's tonight, Jim and Dennis of The Smithereens will be talking about their debut record Especially for You at the 'Tuesday Night Record Club' that the Springsteen Archives does via Monmouth University in New Jersey. It's free and there's an in person and Zoom option (I obviously grabbed a Zoom ticket). I've talked here before about how much I love this record - this'll be cool to hear.

Tuesday Night Record Club - The Smithereens "Especially for You" with Jim Babjak and Dennis Diken of The Smithereens - Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music
It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify […]

Taylor-like approximations of center manifolds for rough differential equations
Alexandra Blessing, Dennis Rudik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00971 https://a…

Taylor-like approximations of center manifolds for rough differential equations
The dynamics of rough differential equations (RDEs) has recently received a lot of interest. For example, the existence of local random center manifolds for RDEs has been established. In this work, we present an approximation for local random center manifolds for RDEs driven by geometric rough paths. To this aim, we combine tools from rough path and deterministic center manifold theory to derive Taylor-like approximations of local random center manifolds. The coefficients of this approximation …

New Documentary Exposes Fracking’s Heavy Toll on New Mexico https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-documentary-exposes-frackings-heavy-toll-on-new-mexico-2025-12-01/

New Documentary Exposes Fracking’s Heavy Toll on New Mexico
Center for Biological Diversity: LAS CRUCES, N.M.— The Land of Sacrifice, a new documentary released today by filmmaker Annie Ersinghaus, shows how New Mexico’s fracking boom is heaping health and environmental burdens on frontline communities.

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THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #8: LAIDBACK
This language was developed at the Marin County Center for T'ai Chi,
Mellowness and Computer Programming (now defunct), as an alternative to
the more intense atmosphere in nearby Silicon Valley.
The center was ideal for programmers who liked to soak in hot tubs while
they worked. Unfortunately few programmers could survive there because the
center outlawed Pizza and Coca-Cola in favor of Tofu and Perrier…

Neue Rechenzentren: CloudHQ investiert 4,8 Milliarden US-Dollar in Mexiko
Die mexikanische Großstadt Querétaro entwickelt sich immer mehr zu einem attraktiven Standort für Data Center. Nach Microsoft und Amazon investiert nun CloudHQ.

Profit aus Transit - Mega-Center soll Konkurrenz für „Excalibur“ werden #News #Nachrichten

Covariant cosmography in the presence of local structures: comparing exact solutions and perturbation theory
Maharshi Sarma, Christian Marinoni, Basheer Kalbouneh, Chris Clarkson, Roy Maartens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03517

Covariant cosmography in the presence of local structures: comparing exact solutions and perturbation theory
Recent observational evidence of axially symmetric anisotropies in the local cosmic expansion rate motivates an investigation of whether they can be accounted for within the Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) framework with an off-center observer. Within this setting, we compute the exact relativistic luminosity distance via the Sachs equation and compare it with the approximate expression obtained from the covariant cosmographic approach (including Hubble, deceleration, jerk and curvature parameters…

👼 Stringent climate policies could offer major health and economic gains by 2030
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-stringent-climate-policies-major-health.html

Stringent climate policies could offer major health and economic gains by 2030
Air pollution is one of the world's leading health risks, contributing to nearly one in eight deaths globally. A new study published in Science Advances by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) shows that stringent climate policies designed to avoid temporarily exceeding 1.5°C warming could prevent hundreds of thousands of premature deaths while avoiding trillions of dollars in economic damages.

Legal teams in Chicago are mobilizing to educate children on their rights and document any coercion.
But make no mistake
—this is cruelty by design.
https://immigrantjustice.org/press-release/operation-freaky-friday-what-you-need-to-know/

Operation “Freaky Friday”: What You Need To Know - National Immigrant Justice Center
Operation “Freaky Friday” appears to affect a limited group of children who arrived in the United States as "unaccompanied children.” It does NOT appear to target all immigrant children more broadly.

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg (Rei Takver/DeSmog)
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p151#a251105p151

Tow Center identifies eight X bot accounts that use X's AI Note Writer API to write between 5% to 10% of the Community Notes visible to the public each day (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/x-twitter-ai-

X is using AI fact-checkers.
Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.”

On The Road - To Xi’An ⛑️
在路上 - 去西安 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Maybe Everyone Owes Raiders QB Aidan O'Connell an Apology https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-aidan-oconnell-geno-smith-indianapolis-colts-pete-carroll

"After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors"
#US #USA #America

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

A basket tracking stocks of 10 European data center operators and infrastructure providers surged 23% in 2025, topping the Nasdaq 100, driven by the AI boom (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-04/the-bi…

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

(Not a #30DayMapChallenge map)
I was so busy the past couple of days that I missed the news that there’s a category-1 typhoon (#Kalmaegi / #TinoPH) that’s about to make landfall in a few hours in th…

NEW PROGRAM> The Contemplative Semester (including college credit)
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Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
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Micah Parsons takes center stage as his Packers visit the Cowboys a month after trade https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/micah-parsons-takes-center-stage-as-his-packers-visit-the-cowboys-a-month-after-trade…

Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

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

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

Sources: Oaktree, EQT, DWS, and other private capital groups are seeking to cash in on the US-driven AI boom, launching €17B of European data center sales (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/48a39d2c-f5ac-470e-b2ac-93cdc5eb4be7

Raiders’ Pete Carroll Called Out Over Kenny Pickett Decision https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-kenny-pickett-colts-loss/?adt_ei=[email]

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

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

Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers (Natasha Bertrand/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/suriname-boat-strike-bradley
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p118#a251205p118

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an "IPO is not on the cards right now", and that OpenAI hopes the US government might backstop the financing of data center deals (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-isnt-yet-working-tow…

#CFP: Center for Religion and Cities
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#CFP: Center for Religion and Cities
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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

Three of the four California counties empowered to inspect federal immigration detention facilities
💥have not done so,
and the fourth has conducted only basic reviews of food this year, records obtained by CalMatters show.
If they were checking, local officials would be providing an additional layer of oversight
at a time when the number of people held in detention centers has surged because of the Trump administration’s crackdown on unauthorized immigrants. 
✅ Tw…

California gave counties power to inspect ICE detention centers. They’re not using it
California's seven ICE detention centers have to open their doors to local health departments. So far, county officials aren't making much use of that power.

'Doesn't look good': ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/ice-agent-chicago-drunk-driving-charge/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p163#a251105p163

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Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for 72% of all US data center capacity as of July; places like Umatilla have been transformed by an AWS build-out (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/w…

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

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

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AMD reports Q3 revenue up 36% YoY to $9.24B, vs. $8.7B est., Data Center revenue up 22% to $4.3B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below the highest projections (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04…

Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)
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CFP: International Conference: “Mary’s Grandsons: Marian devotion, colonial politics and native strategies against imperial pressure”
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Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bans-foreign-ai-c…

An analysis of 30 US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details (Natalie Kainz/NBC News)
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How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans
A review of over 30 data center proposals across 14 states found that in most cases, officials signed NDAs and worked with what appeared to be shell companies.

Call for submissions Janovics Award
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TikTok plans to invest $37.7B to build a data center in Brazil's port of Pecém, partnering with Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, its first Latin American project (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/tikto…

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Extropic, which says its chips using probabilistic bits can be 10,000x more energy efficient than current AI chips, shares its first chip with some AI labs (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/extropic-aims-to-disrupt-the-data-center-bonanza/…

Extropic Aims to Disrupt the Data Center Bonanza
A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than ones and zeros.

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

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

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

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

How a Microsoft-backed $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya faced construction delays due to uncertainty over its value for local businesses (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/22/2025/kenya-us-china-tech-war-ai-data-center

Africa’s forgotten battleground in the US-China tech war
A Kenyan data center stalls, raising questions about the ability of the US to compete with China in Africa.

Seattle-based Phaidra, which develops AI agents to help make data centers more resource efficient, raised over $50M in a Series B led by Collaborative Fund (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)
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Exclusive: Phaidra raises $50M from Nvidia and Collaborative
Its AI agents autonomously trim cooling and energy demand.

Sources: China offers to cut data center power bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others, if they use local chips like Huawei's over foreign ones like Nvidia's (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cad2cdd6-7cce-4de3-8710-977de667378c

A fire at South Korea's National Information Resources Service's data center shut down 647 government IT systems, disrupting services such as postal banking (Lee Jung-joo/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10584785

Fire at government data center halts 647 systems, disrupts services - The Korea Herald
A fire at the National Information Resources Service’s data center in Daejeon late Friday temporarily shut down 647 government IT systems, according to the Mini

How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
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AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions

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

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

A look at UAE-based Khazna, a real estate company that builds and rents out data centers and controls 70% of the country's operational data center capacity (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/khazna-data-center-uae/

The invisible backbone of the UAE’s AI superpower dreams
UAE's largest data center operator Khazna is challenging Western assumptions while building regional dominance.

Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K local chip jobs are set to be created in four years (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-arizona-workers-…

A Growing U.S. Tech Hub Needs Workers. Colleges Try to Keep Up.
The success of efforts to turn Phoenix into a dominant center of semiconductor manufacturing may hinge on efforts to train local workers.

How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-dependent economy to a tech and industrial hub (Sofia Horta e Costa/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announce five new data center locations in the US, boosting Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 GW (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-oracle-softbank-data-center-stargate-us/

OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
The new sites will boost Stargate’s planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts—about equal to the output of seven large nuclear reactors.