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Kentucky mother, 82, rejects $26 million for family farm as AI data center plans advance: ‘Everything coming out of the data center is going to be poison and destructive’Kentucky woman rejected $26 million offer to turn her farm into a data center in a bid to preserve it. Ida Huddleston and her family declin...
Tech companies look to Argentina's windswept Patagonia to build massive data centersAs tech giants known as hyperscalers race worldwide to build server farms and run into roadblocks amid anti-data-center campaigns, projects...
One attack, many Americas: Why 9/11 and its many griefs land differently 25 years laterTwenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, their impact continues to resonate differently. Personal histories and political actions shape in...
Henry Ford owned more than 2,000 acres around his Michigan home. The estate later became a national historic landmarkHenry Ford's ambitious vision led him to acquire vast tracts of land near Dearborn, Michigan, to support his burgeoning automobile enterpri...
Railway stocks: Over 2 years of correction; time to relook without bias? 7 stocks with downside to upside potential of -28% to 32%A sector-wide correction usually does one job. It takes the froth off and leaves the good businesses standing where they should be. The two...
- Texas Republicans turn against data centers, putting Big Tech on notice
In a surprising turn, Republican leaders are now standing against data center projects due to increasing public resistance. This developmen...
In 1989, Kentucky engineers built a 750-foot road base using about 80 tons of ponded fly ash; the 11% ash section was reported to perform well against the conventional controlAn experimental road base in Kentucky utilized coal plant residue in 1988. Fly ash has been a federal construction material since the 1970s...
In 2005, conservationists tackled Atlantic Forest loss after more than 80% of its woodland had vanished. 13 years later, jaguars in Upper Paraná rose 160% to 105 animalsIn 2005, severe deforestation destroyed over 80 percent of South America’s Atlantic Forest, pushing local jaguars toward extinction. Conser...
Hanuman Ansh: The saint linked to Apple, Google, Facebook and eBayA film about Neem Karoli Baba has surprised box offices, sparking renewed interest in the Indian saint. Richard Alpert, later Ram Dass, int...
In 2019, Buffalo scientists coated aluminum film with a cooling polymer; a small prototype cooled an enclosed box by 11°F by day and 20°F at nightScientists have engineered a cost-effective film utilizing aluminum foil combined with a polymer layer. This innovative film actively cools...
While Americans watched TV, used personal computers, One Alaska village was still waiting for electricity during 1980sIn the early days of Alaska, wood was the primary source of heat and electricity. The gold rushes sparked a surge in power requirements acr...
In 1990, a rural Idaho community of 17 homes made one final phone call. It marked the end of America's last known hand-cranked telephone systemIn July 1990, a small community in Idaho’s remote Salmon River Canyon said goodbye to a telephone system that had survived for decades. Sev...
In a divided America, the left and right unite to oppose artificial intelligence data centersRural communities face growing concerns over rapid data center expansion. Farmers and environmentalists unite against potential farmland lo...
Texas wildfire mushrooms within hours, ripping through ranchlandsA wildfire rapidly expanded across Texas ranchland, destroying structures. The blaze forced evacuations and school closures in affected are...
Texas turned 68,000 acres of solar farms into sheep pastures to control weeds; the state now accounts for more than half of U.S. solar grazingTexas solar farms are turning to sheep as a surprising solution to a growing maintenance problem. Across roughly 68,000 acres, sheep now gr...
3-year college degrees grow more popular in the US, saving time and cash. But critics aren't soldThree-year bachelor’s degrees are expanding across the US as colleges seek to cut education costs and help students enter the workforce fas...
From $20 million to $100: ‘Donut King’ Ted Ngoy fled from Cambodia to the US and became a multimillionaire in 10 years, lost it all; how he rebuilt his wealthHe fled a dictatorship in Cambodia and came to the US to have a better life. Within ten years of his arrival, Ted Ngoy became a multimillio...
Tyson Foods closes beef plants in Joslin, Illinois and Utah, lays off over 3,200 workers as historic US cattle shortage hits meat giant hardTyson Foods is closing its beef plants in Joslin, Illinois, and Eagle Mountain, Utah, affecting more than 3,200 workers as a historic US ca...
In a 2023 Brazilian study, sheep under photovoltaic panels experienced 30% less radiant heat and up to 8°C lower wool-surface temperaturesA recent study shows sheep benefit from solar panel shade during hot weather. These animals experience significantly less radiant heat expo...
In 1894, a Jewish immigrant moved to North Dakota hoping for a new life after marriage. 42 years later, her memoir became a rare surviving record of Jewish homesteader lifeA young immigrant arrived in America at a time when starting over meant leaving behind everything familiar and facing a very uncertain futu...