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'Makes it even more disappointing': Microsoft backs fossil fuel big time with $7 billion deal in race for AI supremacy

View of Microsoft Romania headquarters in City Gate Towers situated in Free Press Square, in Bucharest, Romania.

Microsoft signs massive methane gas deals to sustain growing AI workloads
AI expansion is driving hyperscalers toward faster fossil fuel power solutions
Microsoft’s data center emissions are projected to rise sharply by 2028

Microsoft has signed a series of methane gas-powered AI data center deals totaling nearly 5 gigawatts of capacity, marking a departure from the company's climate goals.

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Europe faces threat of organised sabotage, terrorist attacks: Estonian FM Tsahkna

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Gabriela Rodriguez Tezoco, an 18-year-old, who just graduated falls to tragic death from Mexico carnival ride in Cabo San Lucas

Gabriela Rodriguez Tezoco, an 18-year-old, who just graduated falls to tragic death from Mexico carnival ride in Cabo San Lucas

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Seth Meyers on Trump’s fixation on men’s bodies: ‘Why are you so weird?’

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Europe faces threat of organised sabotage, terrorist attacks: Estonian FM Tsahkna

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Estonia's counterintelligence service has recently warned that sabotage operations orchestrated by Russian special services have reached a new and dangerous phase in Europe, with targets no longer being purely symbolic. Talking Europe sits down with the country's foreign minister, Margus Tsahkna, to discuss the security situation in Estonia and the…

US supreme court sides with Republicans on rejecting student IDs in New Hampshire midterms

US supreme court sides with Republicans on rejecting student IDs in New Hampshire midterms

Voting rights advocates say directive would disenfranchise young and low-income voters, but Republicans say it’s needed to combat voter fraud

The Guardian - US

US State Department issues warning to NFL fans in Paris ahead of game

US State Department issues warning to NFL fans in Paris ahead of game

A weekend event for Steelers fans has been canceled because of security concerns

The Independent UK

France to deploy 70,000 police across country on Saturday to prevent unrest

France to deploy 70,000 police across country on Saturday to prevent unrest

Move follows some of the worst street violence in years on the fringes of cost-of-living protests last weekend

The Guardian - UK

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Gabriela Rodriguez Tezoco, an 18-year-old, who just graduated falls to tragic death from Mexico carnival ride in Cabo San Lucas

Gabriela Rodriguez Tezoco, an 18-year-old, who just graduated falls to tragic death from Mexico carnival ride in Cabo San Lucas

Gabriela Rodriguez Tezoco, an 18-year-old who had just graduated from high school, died after falling from a spinning carnival ride during a festival in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. A video captured the fatal fall as authorities launched an investigation and suspended the ride. Tezoco had just graduated this summer from…

The Economic Times

Seth Meyers on Trump’s fixation on men’s bodies: ‘Why are you so weird?’

Seth Meyers on Trump’s fixation on men’s bodies: ‘Why are you so weird?’

The late-night host discussed Trump’s ramblings at rallies and expressed disdain for a controversial Republican ad

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