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Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts

As Big Tech dumps billions of dollars into America’s data center buildout, a slew of opportunities have opened up to the electricians wiring these massive facilities.

In some cases, the scale of the projects and the demanding construction timelines are fueling talent wars for the industry’s best and brightest. The US-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has argued that its workers are “powering the AI Revolution,” and a set of “Data Center Principles” published in March argues that union labor is “essential to the future of AI.” Tech companies are trying to meet the moment: Meta recently announced a skilled trade academy program, and Google committed $50 million to help train people in skilled trades.

But amid growing national opposition to data centers, debates over the ethics of the massive buildout have started to pop up in some online pockets of the community.

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Indonesia turns to AI to deliver Prabowo’s biggest promises

The most expensive promise Prabowo Subianto made on his way to Indonesia’s presidency was lunch. His free-meals programme, budgeted at roughly $15bn to feed some 83 million children and pregnant women across an archipelago of thousands of islands, is the kind of undertaking that lives or dies on logistics.

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The Bank of England backs down on its toughest stablecoin rules

When the Bank of England first sketched out how it would regulate stablecoins, the industry read the draft and recoiled. Caps on how much any one person could hold, conservative rules on what the coins could be backed by: critics said the regime would make real-world use almost impossible and

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Spiro takes $55M from China’s NewTrails as it nears a $1bn valuation

The hard part of electrifying a motorcycle in Lagos or Nairobi was never the motorcycle, it was the charging. A rider who earns by the trip cannot afford to sit for hours waiting for a battery to fill, which is why Spiro built its business around swapping instead: pull in,

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Baden Bower tracks 12,040 AI citations across six engines to rank top publications for AI visibility

For years, brands have made media placement decisions based on a publication’s domain authority, readership numbers, and name recognition. None of those metrics measures how often a publication actually appears when someone asks an AI engine for a recommendation. That gap is what the Baden Bower AI Visibility Index

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Indonesia turns to AI to deliver Prabowo’s biggest promises

The Bank of England backs down on its toughest stablecoin rules

Spiro takes $55M from China’s NewTrails as it nears a $1bn valuation

Baden Bower tracks 12,040 AI citations across six engines to rank top publications for AI visibility