SEATTLE, WA — Amazon announced an update to its package tracking system that would helpfully inform California customers when their package had reached their destination and been stolen.
America’s largest technology companies are expected to borrow a record $420 billion in 2027 to finance the artificial intelligence boom as Wall Street investors increasingly demand higher returns to absorb the flood of debt.
In Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: ‘We can’t live like this.’
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To feed the insatiable electricity demands of Northern Virginia's "Data Center Alley," utility developers want to construct Valley Link North: an ultra-high-voltage 765-kilovolt transmission line cutting a 200-foot-wide path across more than 200 miles of West Virginia countryside. Standing over 185 feet tall, the massive steel towers threaten family farms, historic land, and scenic views via eminent domain. In a deeply conservative pocket of Appalachia, landowners and multi-time Trump voters—already squeezed by inflation, tariffs, and federal downsizing—are fighting back, warning that Washington and Big Tech's push for AI infrastructure may cost them their political loyalty at the ballot box. MS NOW's Josh Einiger reports from Charles…
If the allegations hold up, a hidden charge buried inside Amazon's ad auctions would have quietly raised the price of everyday goods for millions of shoppers. The question is how little visibility either sellers or regulators have into the pricing machinery of the country's largest online marketplace.
They added that they believed “consumers who seek out Made in the USA products should be able to rely on accurate country-of-origin information when making purchasing decisions.”
The measure would direct state regulators to consider rules requiring data centers to cover higher energy costs, but it would not compel them to do so.