North Carolina AI data center proposal withdrawn as county officials mull moratorium

The project could have cost $19.2 billion with an initial proposed capacity of 300MW

The project could have cost $19.2 billion with an initial proposed capacity of 300MW
I leaned toward a wired connection to solve my internet issues, so it was frustrating when my Ethernet connection began stuttering during calls and games. This was particularly painful because speed tests returned normal results. After thorough troubleshooting, I found that the same energy-saving features designed to make Ethernet greener were creating an unpleasant experience…
Presented by Kasm Technologies Enterprise infrastructure teams have spent the better part of a decade pushing workloads into Kubernetes. Applications, APIs, batch jobs, data pipelines — if it runs in a container, it belongs in the cluster. The operational benefits are well-established: declarative configuration, horizontal scaling, self-healing, native integration with CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling….
President Lee Jae-myung has formalized plans to create a “Future Response Fund” that will convert the massive additional tax revenue anticipated from the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor boom into strategic investment resources for the nation’s future. The strategy aims to secure national growth engines by aggressively deploying the government’s fiscal capacity during a critical window…
US rare earths produced by Washington-backed companies are flowing to Japan and South Korea, as American demand has yet to materialize despite the Trump administration’s push to develop a national supply chain. Rare earths products produced by MP Materials, Energy Fuels and Phoenix Tailings—which together have won billions of dollars in US government support—are being…
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OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent embedded inside its flagship chatbot that aims to transform ChatGPT from a question-and-answer tool into an autonomous work platform capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks across users’ email, calendars, code repositories, and messaging apps. The product is powered by OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-5.6, and…