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Tech Bosses To Meet At White House, Pledge Their Data Centers Won't Boost Electricity Bills Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Leaders in big tech are expected to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House next week to pledge that their data centers will not increase the energy bills of Americans living near the facilities. The logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone and a laptop screen. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images “Major tech companies will join President Trump at the...

NYC Tower Owner Prepares To Rebuild 15 Floors After I-Beam Failure Fears of a possible collapse at a condo tower under construction near Grand Central Terminal had abated by the end of the week, but the incident only signals the massive engineering challenges tied to Manhattan's office-to-apartment conversion boom. The former Pfizer headquarters at 235 East 42nd Street, being converted by David Werner and Nathan Berman's Metro Loft Management into more than 1,600 residential units, has become a high-profile example of the risks of repurposing aging office towers into housing at...

Russia Condemns US Attack On Iran, Warns Of Possible 'Radiological Catastrophe' As fully predictable, Moscow has blasted the major overnight and early morning US-Israeli strikes on Iran, calling the attack "a preplanned and unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent U.N. member state" and has demanded an immediate halt to the military campaign and a return to diplomacy. The Foreign Ministry in a statement on Telegram accused Washington and Tel Aviv of "hiding behind" concerns about Iran’s nuclear program while actually pursuing regime change, as also cited in...