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☆ First it was warehouses taking over America. Now it's data centers.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Matt Turner | Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

On the agenda today:This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThis week's dispatchData center boomAmerica's biggest warehouse owner is getting in on the data center game. Data centers are going up across rural America, impacting communities and placing strains on utilities. Unlike other businesses, venture firms don't suddenly go out of business. Such a dream will require more money than has ever been spent on any business venture in history.

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The AI boom has triggered a surge in spending on data centers. The AI boom has supercharged a wave of spending on data centers. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe data center boom is set to double or triple the amount of energy consumed by these data centers. A recent Cowen research report estimated that AI data centers could require more than five times the power of traditional facilities. Amazon does not disclose how many data centers it occupies, where they are located, or how much electricity they consume.

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☆ How Tractor Supply managed to shrink theft rates when they're surging almost everywhere else
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tractor Supply Co.'s CEO says retail crime is a major problem, but his company is bucking the trend. He revealed four factors that have helped Tractor Supply see lower rates of inventory shrink this year. AdvertisementAdvertisementIf it costs a lot at Tractor Supply, it's probably also heavy. "You basically get greeted and you're checked out right in the front of our store," Lawton said. Hard-to-steal merchandiseOf course, the types of products that Tractor Supply sells — livestock feed, gun safes, truck boxes, etc.

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☆ John Blake: The story about race I didn't know how to tell
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

John Blake, seen here in a second-grade photo, grew up as the son of a White mother and Black father. What I didn’t know was that my community had died long before the Freddie Gray protests. That’s the story I wanted to tell, but I didn’t know how. I didn’t know how to tell Harlow any of that because my story doesn’t fit traditional narratives about race or identity. My white family members didn’t change because I shamed them with an impressive lecture on systemic racism.

☆ Tucker Carlson's history of alleged workplace sexism stretches back to 2015, long before Abby Grossberg
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Possible rationales include Murdoch's contempt for Carlson's religiosity and Carlson's insistence on hewing to conspiracy theories about the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Internal correspondence unearthed in a defamation lawsuit against Fox News showed Carlson used sexist expletives to refer to a female Fox executive and a guest. The company last week agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. Carlson was one of many Fox News hosts who promoted false election conspiracies, the subject of the defamation suit, on their shows. Fox News is still facing a similar defamation suit from another voting machine manufacturer.

☆ ‘We Have a Ghost’ Review: A Haunted House Hits Social Media
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The first scene in “We Have a Ghost” involves an entire family running out of their house screaming, jumping in their car and tearing away. Still, there’s a scary amount of stuff going on in writer-director Christopher Landon ’s horror movie/murder mystery/domestic drama/deep-state thriller/coming-of-age teenage romance. It may be based on the short story “Ernest” by Geoff Manaugh . A year later, looking for a new start, the family of young Kevin Presley (Jahi Winston) moves in, having been kept in the dark by their broker (Faith Ford) about the house’s blighted history. When Kevin first meets up with Ernest (that’s what it says on his bowling shirt), the boy laughs at the ghost’s boogeyman routine, befriending him instead.

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