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AI Data Centersâ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead / In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold it to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN threaten to exit Canada if metadata surveillance law passes
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'Kill switch' law means your next car could be watching you | A federal requirement aimed at stopping drunken driving could soon put driver-monitoring technology in every new vehicle. The goal is saving lives, but the privacy trade-offs deserve closer scrutiny
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Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism â CBC uncovers 14 accounts from India, Pakistan, Indonesia posting on popular Alberta separatist groups
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Kevin OâLearyâs Huge Data Center in Canada Faces a Skeptical Public
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Banks lay groundwork for mass workforce cuts as AI takes hold
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Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg
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Meta So Desperate for Compute That Itâs Building âData Centersâ That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips
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Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones
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Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for building AI data centers while laying off 30,000 staffers
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Reddit Ads Impersonate BBC and The Guardian to Push Fake AI Investment Schemes
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South Koreaâs artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy
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Two thirds of our customersâ fraud cases start on Meta, Lloyds says
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All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
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Google lays off Cloud, cybersecurity staff as Big Tech doubles down on AI investments
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Majority of USâs new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
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Ryan Breslow, the CEO of the US-based fintech company Bolt, openly defended his decision after eliminating the company's entire HR department.
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Why Anthropic's bizarre call for everyone to slow down on AI will never work
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Desalinated ocean water gets one step closer to helping Arizona with drought troubles
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PointFive, which helps companies reduce unnecessary cloud and AI spending, raised a $60M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total funding to $100M (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
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NY-based A Security, which uses AI to automate offensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with $37M in funding from Lightspeed, Wiz's Assaf Rapaport, others (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
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Amazon announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar deal with Corning to produce optical fiber for its US data centers; Corning shares jump 8%+ (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
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FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a presidential pardon; he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024, following the FTX collapse (Bloomberg)
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A study estimates the iPhone's diffusion explains 33%-52% of the decline in US births from 2007 to 2011, with the most pronounced effects among women aged 15-24 (Sabrina Tavernise/New York Times)
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Meta says it's filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that barred NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp and its users (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
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Sources: Google recently placed an order with Intel to manufacture 3M+ TPUs in 2028; Nvidia is testing Intel's tech for a new processor and running 18A trials (Qianer Liu/The Information)
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Sources: the US urged NATO allies to channel defense spending toward efforts to replace components from Huawei in their networks and critical infrastructure (Bloomberg)
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Bending Spoons files for a US IPO, reporting a net income of $27.5M on revenue of $601M in Q1, vs. a net loss of $112.2M on revenue of $259M a year earlier (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
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Travis Kalanick, Mark Pincus, and other founders share their horror stories of pitching to VCs; Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince publicly calls out Vinod Khosla (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
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A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or contracts for energy produced nearby (Yusuf Khan/Wall Street Journal)
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UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce "device controls" that stop kids from sending and receiving nude images or face laws forcing them to do so (Reuters)
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In a notice to Maine's AG, Meta says 20,225+ Instagram accounts may have been hacked during the months-long abuse of its Meta AI chatbot, starting on April 17 (Zack Whittaker/~this week in security~)
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Report: UK PM Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on "harmful" online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some "safer" social media (Reuters)
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Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked Via AI Tool Abuse (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)