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Technology

A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering the benefits, challenges, architecture, key businesses and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Meta’s AI Agent Plan, Grok’s Perversion, The Prison of Financial Mediocrity The Big Technology Podcast…

Technology

How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar’s power and energy unit; generator sales increased 28% year-over-year through September 2025, after increasing 22% to $7.8 billion in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 31, 2025

Bob Tita / Wall Street Journal: How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar’s power and energy unit; generator sales…

Politics

Trump regime threatens artists as Kennedy Center will be empty on New Year’s Eve

By Frank M. EverettDecember 30, 2025

The Trump administration has turned the Kennedy Center, which serves as a living monument to former President John F. Kennedy,…

Technology

Data center developers, facing network access delays of up to seven years, are turning to aero-derivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 28, 2025

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Politics

Trump’s Kennedy Center is becoming a ghost town as artists cancel and refuse to perform there

By Frank M. EverettDecember 27, 2025

Donald Trump’s hijacking of the Kennedy Center is not going well for the president, nor for the living monument to…

Politics

Lawsuit filed to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center

By Frank M. EverettDecember 23, 2025

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), head of the Kennedy Center, filed a lawsuit, arguing that Donald Trump did not have the…

Technology

Alphabet agrees to acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus existing debt, as part of its efforts to expand its AI data center footprint (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 22, 2025

Bloomberg: Alphabet agrees to acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt, as part…

Technology

data center contracts reached $61 billion globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled year-over-year to $182 billion, with Meta raising $62 billion in debt since 2022, about 50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 20, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s potential, Google’s fast model and co-pilot encounter turbulence The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

Technology

A look at Meta’s Hyperion 2GW data center in Louisiana, the first phase of which will open in 2028; analysis shows GPU sales tax breaks could total more than $3.3 billion (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 20, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Why Roomba is Dead + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Christmas Song The…

Technology

Hut 8 is partnering with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, $7 billion lease, starting with 245 MW of compute capacity (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 17, 2025

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China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

Airlines discover the grass isn’t always greener with new engines

Texas Butcherworm Cases Don’t Endanger Food Supply, Brooke Rollins Says

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly launch obesity pills, prepare for Medicare coverage

United CEO rejects airline mergers after US rejection

Lavazza launches single-serve tablets to prepare espresso

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

Hakeem Jeffries goes on Fox News and calls them out for ignoring GOP bigots

Trump Melts Down and Leaves to Meet the Press When Asked for Evidence of Election Rigging

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

US FCC waives deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still scheduled to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its repositories on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Meta invests $115 million in workforce academy, free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees on Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal)

Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode improvements aimed at agent coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has more than $20 billion in assets under management, after launching less than two years ago (Peter Rudegeair/Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: center

A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering the benefits, challenges, architecture, key businesses and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)

How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar’s power and energy unit; generator sales increased 28% year-over-year through September 2025, after increasing 22% to $7.8 billion in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)

Trump regime threatens artists as Kennedy Center will be empty on New Year’s Eve

Data center developers, facing network access delays of up to seven years, are turning to aero-derivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

Trump’s Kennedy Center is becoming a ghost town as artists cancel and refuse to perform there

Lawsuit filed to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center

Alphabet agrees to acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus existing debt, as part of its efforts to expand its AI data center footprint (Bloomberg)

data center contracts reached $61 billion globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled year-over-year to $182 billion, with Meta raising $62 billion in debt since 2022, about 50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)

A look at Meta’s Hyperion 2GW data center in Louisiana, the first phase of which will open in 2028; analysis shows GPU sales tax breaks could total more than $3.3 billion (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

Hut 8 is partnering with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, $7 billion lease, starting with 245 MW of compute capacity (Akash Sriram/Reuters)