Data Centers, Plastic Bottles, and the Melania Documentary
Quotes from recent reads: three for everyone and another three for paid AG supporters.
Another Country
America, Beauvoir feared, was at risk of becoming ‘no different from the totalitarian regimes it claims to oppose’. On a bus in Texas, she saw a group of whites jeer at a pregnant Black woman; the woman fainted. America’s ‘democratic culture’ stopped at the colour line. Richard Wright took her to churches in Harlem and showed her that the North’s de facto segregation was just as oppressive, in its own way, as the de jure segregation in the South. By the end of her trip, Beauvoir had concluded that equality and freedom had been ‘emptied of their meaning’ in the United States. The only way to continue loving the country, she decided, was ‘to love it sorrowfully’.
Melania Documentary Creators Say Its Big Price Tag Wasn’t Bribery
The makers of Amazon’s Melania documentary have defended its exorbitant cost following accusations of bribery to appease the Trump empire. Amazon paid $40 million to Melania Trump’s production company for the film rights and another $35 million for marketing — making it one of the most expensive documentaries ever produced.
At Least 4 Wisconsin Communities Signed Secrecy Deals for Billion-Dollar Data Centers
Wisconsin has some 40 data centers, stretching from Kenosha to Eau Claire. But most are tiny compared with the big seven: three under construction in Beaver Dam, Mount Pleasant and Port Washington; and four proposed in DeForest, Janesville, Kenosha and Menomonie.
Besides storing and processing data, data centers are vital to advancing the use of artificial intelligence.
A case study in how projects each worth $1 billion or more are kept quiet is Beaver Dam, the Dodge County burg an hour northeast of Madison, where Meta’s data center is expected to open in 2027.
