Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear

Tech Insider : Business, Environment
Matt Garman AWS CEO
Matt Garman AWS CEO

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Meet the ICE contractor pivoting from detention facilities to 'man camps' for data center construction workers

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Stargate Abilene Texas
Giant data centers like the Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas are under construction across the country.

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I'm a construction manager who vibe coded a paperwork tracker. My workers loved it — until I accidentally broke it.

Tech Insider : Business
Construction superintendent Pawel Mniszak is pictured.
Pawel Mniszak vibe coded HrdHat, a tool that managed field level risk assessments on construction sites, and learned a lesson about security along the way.

Pawel Mniszak

This startup made AI agents to manage construction projects like data centers. See the pitch deck it used to raise $9 million.

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Krane founder and CEO Eshan Jayamanne
Eshan Jayamanne, the founder and CEO of Krane.

Krane

America's homebuilding is powered by immigrant workers. Here are the places that rely on them the most.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Style
Construction workers build a home in the Palisades fire zone on the one year anniversary in the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles.
The cities building the most homes rely more heavily on immigrant labor.

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A peek inside the Fed's renovations that are now at the center of a DOJ probe

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Technology
A worker exits the construction zone surrounding the Federal Reserve Bank's main Washington D.C. offices.
The Federal Reserve's two offices have been under construction for three years. Cost overruns are now at the center of a DOJ probe into the bank's Chair.

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The mayor of a New York City suburb says building apartments on parking lots near train and bus stations is a key to reining in rent

Tech Insider : Business, Politics
People wait for a train in New Rochelle, New York.
New Rochelle, New York, a 40-minute train ride from Midtown Manhattan, has focused its housing construction in areas near transit.

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Real estate tech startup Digs raised $19 million to build AI that makes home construction easier. Read its pitch deck.

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Digs cofounders by Frackiewicz and Ryan Fink, wearing black clothes with the company's logo.
Digs cofounders by Frackiewicz and Ryan Fink.

Digs

AI robotics has a big data problem. This startup raised $405 million to fix it in surprising ways.

Tech Insider : Business
FieldAI CEO Ali Agha
FieldAI CEO Ali Agha

FieldAI

How a millennial mom trained for a blue-collar job that doubled her hourly pay and got her out of survival mode: 'I have time for my kids now'

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
A woman in construction gear takes a selfie
Diana Sanchez switched careers to become an iron worker and was able to get out of survival mode and spend more time with her kids.

Diana Sanchez

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