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"We Can't Move Forward": Brookfield-Backed Compass Abandons Virginia Data Center Project
"We Can't Move Forward": Brookfield-Backed Compass Abandons Virginia Data Center Project
Compass Datacenters is abandoning a massive data center project in Northern Virginia after what Bloomberg described as "intense pushback from local residents."
The retreat comes as local opposition to data center buildouts accelerates nationwide, with residents increasingly furious over surging power demand, soaring electricity bills, land-use battles, and transmission lines cutting through neighborhoods and farmland.
We were the first to describe the epicenter of the data center buildout revolt in the Mid-Atlantic area, all the way back in the summer of...
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Apr 7, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Europe's Climate Policy Forces Industry Into Retreat; Even Its Critics Are Folding
Europe's Climate Policy Forces Industry Into Retreat; Even Its Critics Are Folding
Submitted by Thomas Kolbe
In the media business, five months is an eternity. And it does indeed seem like an eternity has passed since Christian Kullmann, CEO of the German chemical giant Evonik, sharply criticized European climate policy at the end of October.
At the time, Kullmann gave an interview to Süddeutsche Zeitung, in which he called—if not for the outright abolition—then at least for a significant weakening of the EU-wide CO₂ emissions trading system, given the dramatic state of...
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Aug 10, 2026 / Tyler Durden
If They Were Human, They'd Be Arrested. Experts Respond To Rogue AI Breaches
If They Were Human, They'd Be Arrested. Experts Respond To Rogue AI Breaches
Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times,
What if an artificial intelligence model is given a task and uses every conceivable resource at its disposal to complete it, even at the detriment of humanity itself?
That is what some are now fearing after an OpenAI model broke out of a testing sandbox and used zero-day exploits to hack into Hugging Face, an open-source community for AI and machine learning, to crack a problem it was instructed to solve.
“This...
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Jul 12, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Obamacare Premiums Likely To Rise In 2027, Analysts Say
Obamacare Premiums Likely To Rise In 2027, Analysts Say
Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times,
Affordable Care Act premiums rose sharply in 2026 and are likely to continue to do so in 2027, based on early rate change filings by some insurers.
A pedestrian walks past an insurance agency that offers Affordable Care Act plans, in Miami on Jan. 28, 2021. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Of the 77 insurers whose proposed rates are now publicly available, the median proposed premium increase is 14 percent, according to a July 8 report by health...
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