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dbpedia_country: Person-Country Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and countries of the world, as extracted from Wikipedia via the DBpedia project. Countries include former countries, empires, kingdoms, and some country-like entities.
This network has 592414 nodes and 637134 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Valve: Steam Controller direkt zum Marktstart ausverkauft
Am Montagabend kam Valves Steam Controller auf den Markt. Wer ihn kaufen wollte, brauchte Glück und Geduld – die Server kamen mit dem Ansturm nicht zurecht.

Valve: Steam Controller direkt zum Marktstart ausverkauft
Am Montagabend kam Valves Steam Controller auf den Markt. Wer ihn kaufen wollte, brauchte Glück und Geduld – die Server kamen mit dem Ansturm nicht zurecht.

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Das haben alle mitgekriegt?
Google AI Center Berlin eröffnet
https://blog.google/intl/de-de/unternehmen/inside-google/google-ai-center-berlin-eroeffnung/
„Gemeinsam mit Dr. Karsten Wildberger, Bundesminister für Digitalisieru…

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/technology/ai-data-centers-land-c…

Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power
Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.

Removal of educational requirements for federal contracting jobs
-- including in technology work
-- moved one step closer to reality Monday.
The Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act (H.R. 5235) sailed through the House
and now awaits Senate consideration.
The bill from Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.,
and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill.,
would ban minimum education requirements for personnel in some contracts. 
Introducing the bill on the House floor ahead…

House passes bill to scrap education requirements from federal contracting jobs
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said the Skills-Based Federal Contract Act will eliminate a “paper ceiling” and give agencies access to a broader base of tech talent.

🤦🏻‍♀️ In Denmark, the Center Did Not Hold
#politics

In Denmark, the Center Did Not Hold
Tuesday’s Danish election punished the Social Democrats as well as their center-right government partners. The result again showed voters’ distaste for managerial coalitions spanning the neoliberal center ground.

Austausch und 3D-Videokonferenzen: Google eröffnet AI Center in Berlin
In Googles Berliner Büro ist ein AI Center eingezogen. Bei der Eröffnung zeigt Google die Meeting-Zukunft – Project Beam.
https:/…

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on Sunday because of the company's support of "US military and intelligence activities" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/amazon-bahrain-data…

Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.