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Electricity costs rise amid data center boom – Axios

Electricity costs rise amid data center boom  Axios How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power  The Economist Which states have rising electricity costs? See map  USA Today Beware the AI industrial complex | Op-Ed  The Seattle Times Rise in electricity prices hitting Ohioans, picking supplier can be tricky  Toledo Blade Source link

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July employment data convinces Wall Street of a September cut

July employment data convinces Wall Street of a September cut

Until Friday, analysts had little confidence that the U.S. Federal Reserve was about to deliver an interest rate cut, but last week’s revisions to labor market data have led many to bet in favor of Jerome Powell cutting at the Fed’s next meeting in September. On Friday the Labor Department reported payrolls grew by just 73,000 last month, well below …

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Where Data Center Construction Is Concentrated: Map

Where Data Center Construction Is Concentrated: Map

Big Tech’s race toward a future built on AI is speeding up. On quarterly earnings calls with investors last week, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta all announced massive increases in their infrastructure spending plans for the year as the AI boom accelerates. Amazon signaled it will blow past its initial $100 billion capex target, Google announced a $10 billion capex …

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How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data

How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the statistician overseeing the tabulation of the monthly figures was appointed by former President Joe Biden. Unlike Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump has been criticizing for months, the president …

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Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash

Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash

Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it lost this week. The automaker was undeniably covering up for Autopilot. Last week, a jury found Tesla partially liable for a wrongful death involving a crash on Autopilot. I explained the case in the verdict in this article and video. …

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Trump undermines jobs data as White House defends firing of BLS chief

Trump undermines jobs data as White House defends firing of BLS chief

U.S. President Donald Trump walks towards reporters from Marine One at at the Lehigh Valley International Airport on August 03, 2025 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images President Donald Trump and one of his top economic advisors stoked baseless conspiracies about federal jobs data Monday, suggesting without evidence that Friday’s weaker-than-expected jobs report had been “rigged” by federal …

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How the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report really works and why data revisions are not ‘a scam’ as Trump claims

How the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report really works and why data revisions are not ‘a scam’ as Trump claims

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam,” accusing one of the top overseers of government statistics of cooking the books in a vendetta against his presidency. “In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad,” Trump …

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White House advisers defend Trump’s firing of official behind jobs data | Donald Trump News

White House advisers defend Trump’s firing of official behind jobs data | Donald Trump News

Trump administration officials question data amid condemnation of dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics head. The White House has defended United States President Donald Trump’s firing of the top official responsible for compiling employment statistics after her dismissal raised concerns about the future credibility of crucial economic data. Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics …

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Trump adviser defends labor official’s firing, deflects on how data was ‘rigged’ – The Washington Post

Trump adviser defends labor official’s firing, deflects on how data was ‘rigged’  The Washington Post Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils.  The New York Times Opinion | The Bureau of Labor Denial  The Wall Street Journal White House officials rush to defend Trump after shaky economic week  The Guardian ‘The revisions are hard evidence’: White House struggles to justify firing …

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