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Meta to fund seven new natural gas power plants to fuel AI data centers — Entergy partnership to deliver 7 gigawatts of power for Louisiana AI facility

Meta is paying for the construction of seven new natural gas plants to supply its largest data center, massively expanding the fossil fuel infrastructure underpinning its AI buildout.

Tom’s Hardware

Meta's $27 billion AI data center is causing chaos in small town Louisiana

In an era of globalization and corporate consolidation, the “pick-and-shovel” ripple spreads very differently. It’s testing assumptions about who actually benefits when a mega-project arrives in town.

Fortune

Dan Simmons obituary

Multi-award-winning writer best known for his speculative fiction, but whose novels and novellas also spanned genres from crime to historical

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Meta’s expanding its already massive Louisiana data center project

Last week, my colleague Sharon Goldman learned that Meta has bought about 1,400 acres, next to its already massive 2,250-acre Hyperion AI data center site in Louisiana.

Fortune

Hey Alexa—Amazon may be teaming up with OpenAI. Here’s why that matters

Amazon had been using a mix of its own models and those from OpenAI rival Anthropic to power Alexa+. Will a pivot to OpenAI's tech finally deliver an updated Alexa that wows users?

Fortune

Trump says Mark Zuckerberg showed him a ‘Manhattan-sized’ AI data center

Trump told Davos elites that Meta’s AI infrastructure shows why the U.S. must clear the way for tech giants to generate their own power.

Fortune

Meta’s $27 billion bet turns AI compute into Wall Street’s hottest new investment

As the AI data center build out charges ahead at full speed, a new asset class is emerging.

Fortune

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Meta, Blue Owl Strike $30 Billion Private Capital Deal For AI Data Center

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is nearing a $30 billion financing deal for its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, which would be the largest private capital raise on record, according to a report published on Friday.

Benzinga

Merck's Winrevair Cuts Clinical Worsening Risk By 76% Among Hypertension Patients

Merck Co. Inc. (NYSE:MRK) announced results Tuesday from its Phase 3 HYPERION trial evaluating Winrevair (sotatercept-csrk) versus placebo (both in combination with background therapy) in recently diagnosed adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, WHO Group 1) functional class (FC) II or III at intermediate or high risk of disease progression.

Benzinga

Meta In Talks With Google And OpenAI To Integrate AI Models As Hyperion Data Center Faces $5 Billion Cost Backlash: Report

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is reportedly in talks with Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google and ChatGPT-parent OpenAI to integrate their artificial intelligence models into its apps, as the company faces scrutiny over its multibillion-dollar "Hyperion" data center project in Louisiana.

Benzinga

Trump Spills Meta's $50-Billion Secret—And Wall Street Is Asking This

When Donald Trump talks, secrets don't stay secret for long. In a cabinet meeting, Trump casually disclosed that Meta Platforms Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) highly touted Louisiana data center, Hyperion, carries a $50 billion price tag. That figure—never shared publicly by Meta—is a bombshell, not only because it dwarfs the original $10…

Benzinga

Why Meta’s AI Titan Clusters Are a Game-Changer for Broadcom

Meta Platforms is planning a massive expansion of its AI data center footprint. See the key reasons why this is music to the ears of AI chip designer Broadcom.

MarketBeat

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Fantasy Books of All Time

Sci-fantasy? Say less.

The Mary Sue

Meta unveils new plans for multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters the size of Manhattan

Meta says its next-generation datacenter clusters will be so big, they will take up a similar amount of space as Manhattan.

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8 Comic Book Characters Who are Total Superman Ripoffs

Did you know that Superman was technically not the first flying Superhero? Superman only leapt tall heights in a single bound back in 1938. The character did not start, “flying,” until 1943 or so. Superman made his debut in Action Comics #1 in 1938. Namor, the Sub-Mariner made his debut…

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Borderlands games in order: Chronological and release

Borderlands 4 is almost here, and whether you're a newcomer or a lapsed Vault hunter, you might need this list of every Borderlands game in order.

Tom’s Hardware

33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore computers gets an unexpected update

Work continues on AmigaOS 3.2 with the stewards of this classic Motorola 680x0 friendly operating system, Hyperion Entertainment, releasing version 3.2.3 a few days ago.

Space

Supermassive black holes bent the laws of physics to grow to monstrous sizes

Scientists may have cracked one of the biggest mysteries in space science, determining that supermassive black holes bent the laws of physics to grow to their huge sizes.

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Never played the Borderlands games? Here's what you need to know ahead of the Borderlands movie

Don't know your Claptrap from your Handsome Jack? Here's everything you need to know about the Borderlands video games before seeing the movie.

Total Film

One The Boys fan has screenshotted all the potential candidates for the Seven, and there are some deep-cut Supes in here

Spoiler alert, there are a few Marvel parodies in there

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 14 players are obsessively camping outside the in-game house of Big Sippin, the Mountain Dew employee who hangs out in the MMO to promote soda

"How long must I wait for the one they call Big Sippin"

Salon

See a "Morning Show" finale exclusive

In the season finale, network CEO Cory Ellison realizes his time at the top of the mountain may be over

The Guardian - UK

At last, Hyperion recordings are streamable. We pick some of the standouts

The British classical label is now part of Universal Music and its superb catalogue is being made available to stream. From Hildegard of Bingen to Hough, Hewitt and Hamelin, we look over some of the greatest recordings now available

Los Angeles Times

Discovery of antibiotic-resistant superbugs in LA wastewater sparks worry

LOS ANGELES — Bacteria that are resistant to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, have for the first time been detected in Los Angeles County wastewater, suggesting that the germs are circulating more widely in the community than previously thought, according to researchers at the University of Southern California.

The Orange County Register

Disneyland reaches out to next generation of forever fans with fresh new entertainment

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Walt Disney would be pleased to see Disneyland reaching out today to tomorrow’s forever fans with the latest round of live entertainment that’s equal parts self-referential, empowering, off-beat, edgy and fresh.

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