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Can Tech Companies Like Google Really Put Data Centers in Space?

✇NYT - Technology
By: Cade Metz
Google is preparing to launch a satellite that can run its A.I. technologies from the heavens. But this is just a first step.

© Philip Cheung for The New York Times

Workers prepared to test solar panels and wires for a vibration test for eventual use on a spacecraft, at Planet Labs in San Francisco.
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A Spirited Battle Over Data Centers

✇NYT - World
By: David Gelles
At the Climate Forward live event, policymakers, executives and activists debated the boom in data centers, the growing backlash and its environmental effects.

© Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times

Reporter David Gelles in conversation with Energy Secretary Chris Wright at the Climate Forward event on Wednesday.
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Google Is Sending an A.I. Data Center to Outer Space

✇NYT - Technology
By: Kate Conger and Cade Metz
Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.

© Philip Cheung for The New York Times

A technician in a clean room at the Planet Labs office inspects the solar panels and wires of a Google-commissioned satellite before a vibration test meant to mimic the shaking it will undergo during launch.
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Data Center Is Fined $1.1 Million for Operating 62 Power Generators

✇NYT - Technology
By: Adeel Hassan
New Jersey officials said that the natural gas-powered generators, each the size of a tractor-trailer, were operating without permits.

© USA Today, via Reuters

A data center under construction in Vineland, N.J., last year.
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