Daily Maverick

Better data, same emergency — the forest elephant crisis continues

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the species remains critically endangered. A forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) ...
Reuters

Keeping cool: heat a key challenge for data centers and AI

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The global boom in data centers as companies increasingly outsource information storage and ramp up use of energy-intensive artificial intelligence is creating a ...
Bleeping Computer

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...
AZ Central

$33B data center development in Pinal County clears key hurdle

A $33 billion data center development proposed in Pinal County, planned for about 3,300 acres, is moving forward. The Pinal County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a major amendment to its ...
Wired

The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy

The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, ...
The Real Deal

Amazon drops historic sum on Virginia data center site

Growing opposition to data center development did little to scare off one of technology’s biggest players from a blockbuster land deal. Amazon paid a staggering $700 million for a future data center ...
The Conversation

Fed lowers interest rates as it struggles to assess state of US economy without key government data

When it comes to setting monetary policy for the world’s largest economy, what data drives decision-making? In ordinary times, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and voting members of the Federal ...
Bloomberg L.P.

How the Shutdown Has Cut Off Key Data Guiding the Fed

At a crucial moment for the US economy, Federal Reserve officials are preparing to decide whether to keep lowering interest rates or hold them steady — but they will have to do so with limited fresh ...
Wall Street Journal

Fed Lost Access to Private Jobs Data Ahead of Government Shutdown

Federal Reserve officials, who are unable to receive U.S. economic statistics because of the continuing government shutdown, recently lost access to a separate measure of employment data from a ...
MarketWatch

The Fed has a big decision to make without key data. Here’s what it could do.

As they prepare to meet in 10 days on interest rates, Federal Reserve officials are very divided over a key question: How worried they ought to be about the U.S. labor market. “Some folks are less ...
The American Prospect

Fed Making Key Economic Decisions Without Key Economic Data

Next week, the Federal Open Market Committee will assemble to determine the future direction of interest rates. Analysts expect the Fed to lower the rate by another quarter-point, after a ...