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☆ A rare bee species reportedly put an end to Meta's plans for a nuclear-powered AI data center
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A rare bee species reportedly threw a wrench in Meta's plans for an AI data center. Other tech giants are spending billions on data centers to further their AI ambitions. A rare species of the insect threw a wrench in the company's plans for an AI data center, the Financial Times reported Monday. Rivals, including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, also invest billions in data centers to power their AI. AdvertisementThe boom in data centers to power AI also comes with high costs environmentally, not just financially.

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☆ Amazon's AI data center dream runs into the reality of 'zombie' facilities, higher costs, and labor shortages
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-23 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Electricity and labor headwinds slow Amazon's data center buildout. AdvertisementAmazon is spending heavily on data centers to support booming AI workloads, putting it on pace to build 240 new facilities by 2040, one estimate found. David Cahn, a Sequoia Capital general partner, recently predicted data center delays across the sector. Bernstein Research recently estimated that electricity demand for AI data centers could exceed supply in just two years without action. An Amazon data center in Oregon.

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☆ How major retailers Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, Home Depot prepared for the port strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Club holdings Amazon , Costco , Home Depot , and Best Buy have been preparing for the port strike for months — attempting to blunt any fallout it might have on their abilities to get goods from overseas. They added that 60% to 70% of those imports arrive at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. To put things in perspective, for retail goods, the East Coast ports are less utilized than the West Coast ports, Basham said. Due to its size, however, Best Buy often gets priority from its shippers, which could help secure goods faster than smaller competitors. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

Persons: Walkouts, We're, Jeff Marks, Seth Basham, Basham, Lorraine Hutchinson, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, it's, They're, Ron Vachris, We've, Marc Wulfraat, Wulfraat, Wedbush's Basham, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Maher, Shannon Stapleton Organizations: Longshoremen's Association, United States Maritime Alliance, U.S, Costco, Home, CNBC, Barclays, Retailers, Bank of America, International Longshoremen's Association Locations: East Coast, Gulf, Maine, Texas, Gulf Coast, East, West Coast, Elizabeth , New Jersey, U.S

☆ Walmart sees a bonkers improvement when it automates a warehouse
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Walmart's 4,600 US stores are supported by a network of 42 regional distribution centers. Of those 42, there's "some level of automation" at 15 of them, CFO John David Rainey said. When a DC is automated, Rainey said it sees as much as a 4X leap in efficiency. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Of those 42 DCs, Walmart CFO John David Rainey said the company has 15 that now have "some level of automation," serving about 1,700 stores.

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☆ Amazon's average customer is a white Gen X woman who spent $2,662 there last year
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon's average customer is a white Gen X woman who earns about $60K per year and spends $2,662. Numerator found that Amazon's typical shopper is a white Gen X woman earning around $60,000 per year. Although Baby Boomers slightly outnumber Gen X among Amazon shoppers, Boomers are slightly less likely to shop with the company than the overall US consumer, while Gen X shoppers are slightly more likely. Boomers and Gen X shoppers are also increasingly fans of Amazon's Chinese-owned challenger, Temu. About one fifth of the typical Amazon shopper's consumer spending takes place online, more than the overall US average.

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☆ Amazon says it’s delivering more packages in one day or less after overhauling delivery network
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

An Amazon driver loads packages into a delivery van at an Amazon delivery station on November 28, 2022 in Alpharetta, Georgia. Amazon has for years been marching toward making same-day and next-day delivery the standard for members of its Prime loyalty club. For the past four years, Amazon has poured money and resources into revamping its warehouse and delivery network to shorten shipping times from two days to one day or less. But Amazon's change cut costs and boosted delivery speeds, Madan said. Amazon plans to double the number of same-day sites in its network over the next two years, Madan said.

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☆ Amazon has a plan to expand the number of items eligible for free Prime shipping that won't require it to build more warehouses
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon is reopening enrollment for a program it paused years ago. Seller Fulfilled Prime allows third-party sellers to ship Prime-eligible products directly, without using Amazon's warehouses. This may help Amazon expand Prime offerings without having to significantly expand warehouses. Amazon is reopening sign-ups for Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP), a delivery program that allows third-party sellers to ship Prime-eligible products out of their own warehouses, after a roughly 4-year pause. In a note to sellers earlier this week, Amazon said new seller enrollment for SFP will begin later this year.

Persons: Amazon, Amazon's, SFP, Sellers, Steve Denton, Denton, Marc Wulfraat, Eugene Kim Organizations: SFP, Amazon, UPS

☆ Meet the typical Amazon customer, a college-educated married woman in the Southeast earning $80,000
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Eight in 10 US shoppers are Amazon customers, and they place an average of 74 orders per year. Amazon's average customer is a white woman in the Southeast who earns more than $80,000 per year. Meanwhile, eight out of 10 US shoppers are Amazon customers, according to data from the analytics firm Numerator prepared for Insider. The typical customer orders just one or two items per transaction, but she makes a comparatively high number of transactions per year, with 83 orders at an annual cost of $2,969, Numerator found. Amazon customers are also highly likely to compare prices on Amazon, even when shopping elsewhere.

☆ Amazon will take years to recover from a warehouse overbuilding binge during the pandemic. In 2022, it still added a third of Walmart's total capacity.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The company scaled back warehouse expansion last year in the face of an economic downturn. Amazon grew its warehouse footprint by 125 million square feet in 2020 and 137 million square feet in 2021, Wulfraat estimated. Amazon currently uses about 65% of its total warehouse capacity, lower than the 85% levels from 2019, Wulfraat estimated. That's because Amazon over-expanded in recent years, with warehouse growth "materially" outpacing product sales growth, he said. The company saved up to $4 billion last year when it scaled back warehouse expansion plans, according to Wulfraat.

☆ Amazon may have slowed its warehouse expansion, but it still added space equal to half of Walmart's distribution capacity this year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Even so, Amazon's warehouse footprint is "remarkable" compared to competitors, analysts say. Amazon added roughly half of Walmart's distribution network this year and will keep adding in 2023. The company delayed new building openings and canceled 11 million square feet of projects this year, according to Wells Fargo, citing Wulfraat. But Amazon's moves are by no means a retreat since the company continues to improve delivery speeds and dominate the US market in terms of warehouse footprint. Between 2020 and 2022, Amazon added more than 200 million square feet of warehouse space, doubling its physical footprint in the United States.

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