Americans don’t agree about much in 2026, but a majority are in lockstep on data centers. According to recent polling, a full 75% oppose having one built anywhere near them, a number within striking distance of the 84% of Americans who oppose cutting Social Security. Because the U.S. economy is now profoundly dependent on artificial intelligence, the growing unpopularity of the data centers that supply it is a big problem. Never fear, however, because Donald Trump and his cronies in Congress and media have a bold new strategy for solving it. They’ve lately started claiming data centers are unpopular only…
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As a climate scientist, Zeke Hausfather uses artificial intelligence every day for research and data analysis. But he kept wondering how much energy all that AI use was consuming. So over eight weeks this summer, he tracked the 1,138 prompts he typed into Claude Code and estimated how much electricity they consumed at data centers. Tech companies have shared little data about the energy use of their AI models. One of the few public estimates comes from Google, which said last year that a typical text prompt on Gemini used just 0.24 watt-hours, less than watching TV for nine seconds.…
School cell phone bans aren’t as new as you might think. While a growing number of states have adopted them over the past three years, the practice dates to 1989, when Maryland prohibited the devices (and pagers) in an attempt to limit in-school communication among students who may have been involved in illegal activities. By 2009, in fact, nine out of 10 schools had banned cell phones. But that number began to drop as smartphones spread and parents wanted to be able to reach their kids in emergencies. Now that school phone bans are revving up again, questions are resurfacing…
There is a dangerous idea floating around the workplace: If you care about employees, you should avoid making them uncomfortable. That sounds compassionate. Sometimes it is. Other times, it is managerial cowardice disguised as servant leadership. Leaders who avoid difficult conversations leave people guessing. And capable employees miss opportunities to improve because nobody respected them enough to tell them the truth. Steve Jobs addressed this tension in a 2008 Fortune interview. Describing his responsibility as Apple’s CEO, he said: My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better. That line lands differently today. Employees are…
QUESTION: Marty, I’ve been reviewing all the reports you’ve distributed at the WECs. I wish Trump had attended—I recall he was in the next room one year. Not only have your war cycles been astonishing, but you also forecast this collapse in confidence in governments that would send long-term rates up. I remember back in 2022, you said 5.5% on the 30-year would be the breakout. I’ve reread your 2022 Liquidity Crisis report. Anyone who dares to question your forecasting is simply a troll for the Neocons. Will you have any surprises at this year’s WEC? We have so much on…
Imagine a workplace where you spend less time attached to a keyboard, worrying about how to word an email, write a report, craft a LinkedIn post, polish a presentation deck, or sound professional enough in an office-wide memo. Instead, you stop hunching over a keyboard and start talking your way through a written correspondence, the way you might with another person. Such a workplace may not be as far off as you imagine, according to Calum MacDougall, president of the enterprise division at audio equipment brand Jabra. Whether office culture actually keeps pace, though, is another question. “The keyboard was invented…
The Netherlands is moving a substantial portion of its gold reserves out of the United States and Canada and placing it in London. De Nederlandsche Bank will dress this up as an exercise in “tradability,” geographical diversification, and crisis preparedness, but central banks do not quietly rearrange billions of euros in physical gold because everything is stable. This is a geopolitical decision forced by the realization that the international financial system has been weaponized and that access to national reserves can no longer be taken for granted. NOS reported that approximately 86 tonnes of Dutch gold were relocated between March…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Managing multiple suppliers creates a significant administrative burden, turning basic ordering into an accidental part-time job for small business leaders. A simple supplier audit can identify unnecessary complexity, streamline operations and reclaim valuable time to focus on what matters: Customers, employees and growth. Every business owner knows the feeling of being buried in work that keeps the business running but doesn’t necessarily move it forward. Procurement rarely gets a strategic discussion. It doesn’t get a line item in the annual plan or a slide in the all-hands deck. Most business leaders simply handle it. Time spent comparing prices, placing…
Singapore’s economy expanded 5.9% year-over-year during the second quarter of 2026 after growing 6.3% in the first quarter. That brought growth for the first half of the year to 6.1%, an extraordinary performance for an already-developed economy. The government has now raised its full-year growth forecast to between 4.5% and 5.5%, substantially higher than its previous projection of 2% to 4%. This is not India or Vietnam starting from a low economic base. Singapore is already one of the wealthiest countries in the world. I wrote earlier this year that Singaporeans were feeling their economy grow in real time. The…