Jake Swearingen
Executive Editor, Enterprise at Business Insider
Executive editor, enterprise @BusinessInsider. Formerly @NYmag, @PopMech, @TheAtlantic, &c. Just thinking aloud here :-)
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Jake Swearingen |Hannah Beckler |Henry Blodget
Business Insider's "The True Cost of Data Centers" series explores the impacts — on water, power, pollution, and local economies — of Big Tech's race to dominate a future built on AI. The AI boom has sparked a rush to build data center infrastructure across the US. By Business Insider's count, companies had filed permits to build 311 data centers nationwide as of 2010. By the end of 2024, that number had nearly quadrupled to 1,240.
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Jake Swearingen |Adam Rogers |Hannah Beckler |Dakin Campbell
A blank rectangle of a building sits next to a highway, facing an endless Wyoming prairie. It's painted the greenish-grayish-brown that Disneyland imagineers use on stuff they don't want people to notice. But the nine semitrailer-size green boxes nestling like nursing puppies into the building's long sides are a giveaway.
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Jake Swearingen |Dakin Campbell |Henry Blodget
Mustafa Kaya thought he had found his perfect home in a Northern Virginia neighborhood called Amberleigh Station, drawn to the serenity of the evergreen woods that border his backyard. As a data scientist and first-time homeowner, Kaya wanted a quiet place where he could raise his family. Then came the noise: Google was building a data center on the other side of those trees. Equipment testing can be so loud that Kaya once resorted to sleeping in the basement for two nights.
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Jake Swearingen |Hannah Beckler |Rosemarie Ho |Narimes Parakul
Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars building data centers, racing to power an AI revolution they say will bring broad benefits and enormous profits. The actual price, though, has never been fully measured. So a team of Business Insider reporters and editors set out to find the true cost of the US data center boom — in water, power, pollution, and tax incentives.
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3 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Jake Swearingen |Jacob Shamsian |Henry Blodget
Damian Williams, one of the most prominent federal prosecutors in the country, is walking away from the law firm that struck a deal with Donald Trump — and joining one that's suing him. Williams is leaving Paul Weiss five months after returning to the firm to work for Jenner & Block, a law firm actively challenging the Trump administration in court. Jenner & Block announced the move Friday.
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