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Archives for December 2025

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
San Francisco is suing 10 processed food giants.

The city’s lawsuit, against the likes of Coca-Cola, Nestle, and Kraft, accuses them of selling foods that they knew to be “dangerous for human consumption,” saddling both cities and citizens with “enormous costs” thanks to ensuing health issues.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Normalizing extraterrestrial data centers.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that launching solar-powered satellites like Project Suncatcher into space in a bid to alleviate power consumption concerns will be viewed as “a more normal way” to build AI data centers within the next decade or so.

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
Bill Gates’ nuclear energy company gets initial stamp of approval for construction.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed its safety evaluation for the Kemmerer Power Station in Wyoming and determined that “there are no safety aspects that would preclude issuing the construction permit” for the plant. The NRC says it could take up to another 18 months to make a licensing decision on the advanced reactor.

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
“We don’t wear masks” in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

We’re listening to testimony from one of the responding officers who arrested Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonalds. The officer testified that Mangione’s medical face mask made him stand out as the person who was reported as being suspicious.

“We don’t wear masks” in the city, officer Joseph Detwiler told the court. “We have antibodies.” This elicited an audible reaction from the audience.

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
Satya Nadella acknowledged that data centers are “putting a lot of pressure” on power grids.

The tech industry “needs to earn the social permission to consume energy” for AI data centers he says in an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner. Nadella also called for faster permitting for new power infrastructure and “innovation” in energy efficiency and generation.

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
The largest power grid system in the US is considering rolling blackouts because of energy-hungry data centers.