Meta fast-tracks fiber technician training to solve a major data center bottleneck

Tech Insider : Business
A fiber technician pulls cable at a data center.

Meta

Maine is poised to ban new data centers. These 11 other states tried and failed.

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Active servers are seen at a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia on November 12, 2025.
The data center infrastructure boom has taken off across the country as it meets local resistance.

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Utilities are spending $1.4 trillion to power the AI boom, and it's hiking up electric bills across the US

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Entergy
An Entergy power plant in Texas.

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The Midwest's rise to America's second-biggest data center hub is fueled by these key states

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Meta data center Wisconsin
Construction for a Meta data center campus is underway in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

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10 power players behind the data center debt boom

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John Greenwood, Quynh Tran, and Joe Jackson
Three of the financiers behind the boom: Goldman Sachs' John Greenwood, SMBC's Quynh Tran, and Apollo's Joe Jackson.

Goldman Sachs;SMBC; Apollo

Gen Z's fascination with China is about their disillusionment with capitalism

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Style
The statue of liberty holding a lantern

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Reed Adams' interest in China started on Google Maps.

AT&T is pouring $250 billion into US telecom infrastructure to try to win in the AI age

Tech Insider : Business
An AT&T FirstNet truck in Utah.
AT&T serves more than 100 million customers across the US.

AT&T

Zohran Mamdani wants dozens of factory-built public bathrooms. Delays and high costs could stand in the way.

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani.
Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani

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Blue Owl shopped debt for a CoreWeave data center. Lenders weren't sold.

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Blue Owl Data Center

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will build 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI capacity over time

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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