Columbus Dispatch

Data centers create jobs in central Ohio, but not in ways you might expect

As central Ohio's data center industry keeps booming, critics often lament that the gigantic server warehouses directly employ only several dozen people. But while the number of employees collecting a ...
Wall Street Journal

White House Senses Political Risk on Healthcare Despite Shutdown Bravado

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. ‘could see a hit to the GDP’ because of the government shutdown in an interview with CNBC on Oct. 2. Photo: Leon Neal/Zuma Press WASHINGTON—President ...
The Washington Post

Workers keep dying from heat. Data from inside their bodies shows why.

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Six hours before she collapsed from the heat in the South Florida ...
dbta

Snowflake Unites Industry Leaders with the Open Semantic Interchange Initiative to Create a Universal Semantic Data Framework

Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, is partnering with leading industry players and ecosystem vendors, including Salesforce, BlackRock, dbt Labs, and RelationalAI, to lead the Open Semantic ...
The Nation Newspaper

Ajaokuta Steel to save Nigeria $4billion, create 500,000 jobs

A fully operational Ajaokuta Steel Company could create over 500,000 jobs and save Nigeria $4 billion annually in steel imports, its Managing Director, Prof Nasir Naeem Abdulsalam, has said. He spoke ...
The Nation Newspaper

Ajaokuta Steel will save Nigeria $4bn, create 500,000 jobs, says Abdulsalam

A fully operational Ajaokuta Steel Company could create over 500,000 jobs and save Nigeria $4 billion annually in steel imports, the Managing Director of Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, Professor ...
inforum

Data center operations in North Dakota save nearly $41M through state tax exemptions

BISMARCK — North Dakota data center tenants and operators have saved approximately $40.9 million in the past year alone — thanks to a generous state tax exemption policy tailored specifically to them.
Albuquerque Journal

Grammer: Students save the day, create hot new trophy for Rio Grande Rivalry

Jason Eck was good natured about it, but quite serious about what he was saying. How could a state with only two FBS teams that have played each other more than 100 times not have a traveling trophy?
Wired

Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

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Reuters

Microsoft boosts Wisconsin data center spending to $7 billion

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Thursday said it plans to build a second massive artificial intelligence data center in Wisconsin, bringing its spending in the ...
NPR

33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check

Tens of millions of voters have had their citizenship status and other information checked using a revamped tool offered by the Trump administration, even as many states — led by both Democrats and ...