Andersen predicts security concerns will ultimately keep China’s turbine giants from conquering the continent.
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Sam Birchall,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2026
As rural communities across the United States wage intensifying battles to keep AI-computing data centers out of their backyards, some tech giants are mulling methods that could sidestep such local resentment — by sending the facilities to space.
Yet, some birds can sing louder than animals much bigger than them, such as elephants, lions or bison, which indicates another mechanism is at play that allows birds to be loud that is yet to be discovered, the researchers noted.
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Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2026
The 11,700-square-foot house is part of Thanda Safari, a roughly 40,000-acre private game reserve where elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos, and buffalo roam and giraffes and zebras can sometimes be spotted right from the home.
In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Sep. 2026
See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas.
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Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Sep. 2026
For decades, the seabirds have pecked at whales surfacing to breathe, gorging on their skin and blubber.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Oct. 2026
The new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act remove some of the legal basis for enforcing rules for noisy seismic surveys, speed limits on vessels and restrictions on shipping routes designed to help protect the whales from harm.
Navigating the Long Tau river requires these deep-sea leviathans to turn on a dime, making for some spectacular viewing.
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Loz Blain
May 14,
New Atlas,
14 May 2026
The biggest drag on European innovation and tech is a lack of domestic funding, not regulation, and the new rules are more likely to hurt tech leviathans whose size and network effects contribute to their addictive quality.
But compared to galaxies, which can host 100 billion similarly sized star systems, even these cosmic titans are relatively small in stature.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
2 Oct. 2026
The guest list includes Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, among other tech titans staking out positions on whether more safeguards are needed in the race to develop artificial intelligence.
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