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Fewer diners visited Taco Bell and lettuce-heavy restaurants, including Panera, as a cyclospora outbreak grew late last week.Early data from location intelligence firm Placer.ai shows that US foot traffic at some of these chains began to decline in the second half of the week as reports of the diarrhea-causing parasite…
A proposal to build a massive AI data center roughly 20 miles from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, was rejected late Wednesday by county commissioners after a marathon hearing.The Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners’ 5-1 vote on “Project Tango” followed months of organized opposition…
Meta is scaling up what was already slated to become its largest AI data center, a Louisiana campus that the tech giant says has fueled “life-changing returns” for local teachers and businesses.The company behind Facebook and Instagram said in a blog post on Monday that the Richland Parish data center,…
Ashburn, Virginia, is in the heart of America’s “data center alley.” Over the July 4 weekend, diesel generators at a Digital Realty data center switched on as temperatures spiked.Dark smoke floated above ACC9, one of dozens of data centers clustered in Ashburn and nearby cities, according to a video and…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shed new light on the data leak that made the company pause its unpopular Model Capability Initiative.In an interview with The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson, released on Wednesday, Bosworth spoke about why Meta paused the AI training program that involved tracking employee keystrokes. The interview was…
Officials in the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, say a massive, under-construction Meta data center campus located just south of the city is responsible for contaminating part of its recycled water system.Cheyenne’s Board of Public Utilities said in recent public notices that water discharged by Goat Systems, a Meta contractor at…
The US energy secretary said that a lot of concerns about data centers are real but “overblown.”At an Amazon Web Services conference on Tuesday, Chris Wright urged supporters of data centers to push back on those who criticize their development because of environmental concerns and job losses.”The pluses are way…
Fox News issued an apology after Kevin O’Leary said during an appearance on the channel that opponents of his Utah data center were proxies for the Chinese government.Several Fox News and Fox Business hosts, including Maria Bartiromo, read out rare on-air apologies after O’Leary made the comments on the network…
A proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo is drawing pushback from local community members, including 14-time Country Music Award winner Brad Paisley.Paisley called the proposed data center — backed by DC Blox, a digital infrastructure company — a “monstrosity” in an Instagram video on Friday. He compared the development,…
It’s possible that AI will bring us all kinds of amazing things in the future.In the present, AI is making things more expensive.And Apple just showed us how much more expensive: It is raising prices on some of its Macs and iPads by at least 15% and directly attributing the…
