Compute is destiny. Google just proved it.

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Colorful pipes carrying water in and out of a Google data center in Oregon back in 2012.
Colorful pipes carrying water in and out of a Google data center in Oregon back in 2012.

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Why Big Tech's $700 billion AI splurge is misleading

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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I'm a Big Tech executive with ADHD and anxiety. Neurodivergence has its downsides, but I've turned my habits into strengths.

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Wainwright Yu.

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Meta just told staff it isn't ruling out further layoffs

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Amazon pushes AI use and closely tracks adoption, as some employees push back

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

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A massive Oracle data center planned for rural Michigan secures $16 billion in funding

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A digital rendering of the huge 1-gigawatt data center campus planned for Saline, Michigan, which will serve Oracle's AI business.

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Maine is the latest state to try — and fail — to ban new data centers

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would've paused data center development.

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Meta employees react to pending job cuts: '28 days of hell'

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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  • Meta told staff on Thursday that it planned to eliminate 10% of its workforce.
  • Inside the company, employees are bracing for weeks of limbo as they wait to find out who will be cut.
  • Meta employees responded internally with a mixture of questions, concerns, and jokes.

Welcome to "28 days of hell."

The AI gold rush is pulling workers into startups as layoffs and RTO push them out of corporate jobs

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David Chong (left), Alyson Isaacs (center), and Taylor LaSane (right)
David Chong (left), Alyson Isaacs (center), and Taylor LaSane (right) are among the workers leaving corporate jobs to pursue entrepreneurship.

David Chong (left), Alyson Isaacs (center), and Taylor LaSane (right)

Big Tech's AI data centers are pushing the power grid to its limits — and one state is feeling it the most

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Google data center Texas
Power demand in Texas could quadruple by 2032, driven by data centers seeking to connect to the grid.

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