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New Jersey lawmakers OK plan to charge data centers for spiking electric costs - Route Fifty
https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2026/01/nj-lawmakers-ok-plan-charge-data-centers-spiking-electric-costs/410580/

Trump claims he wants to lower housing costs,
but his allies in the House just axed a bipartisan bill that UNANIMOUSLY passed the Senate to do just that.
If Republicans keep blocking legislation to cut housing costs,
Democrats will pass it ourselves when we take back Congress.
https://bsky.…

Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov)
Trump claims he wants to lower housing costs, but his allies in the House just axed a bipartisan bill that UNANIMOUSLY passed the Senate to do just that. If Republicans keep blocking legislation to cut housing costs, Democrats will pass it ourselves when we take back Congress.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.11.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1175419 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Doge cuts cost US taxpayers $10bn to cover workers' paid leave, analysis finds (Tom Perkins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/doge-taxpayer-costs-federal-workers
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p52#a260109p52

Awaiting a clearer picture to evaluate the long term financial viability of #Starlink:
"I doubt that investors are fully factoring in launch costs, satellite support and management into their bullishness. Most of them have no access to operating expenses. These include ground network costs, customer support, and satellite management."

The Starlink Financial Mystery: Caveats Concerning Its Profitability
subsea cables, internet infrastructure, telecom infrastructure, 2Africa, new subsea cable projects, layer 1 pricing on key international routes,

I really don’t understand why Americans are so afraid of universal healthcare.
It would severely reduce costs of healthcare for everyone—including for rich people (the total per capital health expenses in the US are about twice as much as in Europe).

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitio…

OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, ...

'Only so long' before Trump's tariff costs hit consumers, businesses warn (Daniel Desrochers/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/trumps-tariff-costs-consumers-00679261
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p5#a251208p5

You know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?
Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being chastizing and gatekeeping misers.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, accusing the company of "flagrantly ignoring" safety laws and calling it a "breeding ground for predators" (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0kd4kk0kqo

Texas sues Roblox for 'putting paedophiles and profits' over safety
Roblox said it is "disappointed" that it is being sued based on "misrepresentations and sensationalised claims".