Data Centers Could Be 33% Of Commercial Building Electricity Use By 2050: EIA

Turkey Recruits Trump Insiders For New Washington Lobbying Push Via Middle East Eye The Turkish government hired a lobbying firm with close ties to US President Donald Trump earlier this month under a year-long contract worth $2.4m, according to US Justice Department filings reviewed by Middle East Eye. Ballard Partners, led by Brian Ballard, a prominent Florida Republican fundraiser who also worked on Trump’s presidential campaign, signed the agreement with Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense on August 8. The firm will receive $200,000 per month. via AFP Under the contract, Ballard Partners pledged to provide “government relations services,...

Meta Axes 8,000 Workers As Zuckerberg Admits AI Is Watching, Replacing Labor Welcome to another day of corporate America hemorrhaging engineers and other white-collar workers with insurmountable student debt as AI adoption accelerates. This era will likely be remembered in history as the great "white-collar purge," and the response will be continued hatred of data centers. We've been covering for weeks that today is D-Day for Meta Platforms employees, who have finally learned their employment fate at the company that owns Facebook and Instagram. Bloomberg reports that the new round of...