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Visualizing Data Center Power Surge Before White House Meets With Big Tech
Visualizing Data Center Power Surge Before White House Meets With Big Tech
Ahead of tomorrow's White House meeting, where representatives from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI are expected to pledge that their data-center buildouts will not drive higher power bills for households near those facilities, UBS analyst Arend Kapteyn has published a new note featuring a chart of the day that visualizes the rapid growth in data center power demand on the grid.
After staying mostly flat for years, data center electricity demand has been surging since 2017,...
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CLARITY Act Stablecoin Yield Rules Finalized: 'Go Time' For Crypto Bill
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Authored by Ciaran Lyons via CoinTelegraph.com,
The US CLARITY Act, which aims to provide the US crypto industry with more regulatory clarity, could now move closer to becoming law after new stablecoin yield provisions were published, according to Coinbase chief legal officer Faryar Shirzad.
“It’s time to get CLARITY done,” Shirzad said in an X post on Friday, after US Senator Thom Tillis and US Senator Angela Alsobrooks published the final text aimed at settling the stablecoin yield dispute between the banking and...
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