New data center campus gets the thumbs up in Irving

 https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-02-13/a-major-component-of-the-citys-tax-base-new-data-center-campus-gets-the-thumbs-up-in-irving

The Townsend Plan: The forgotten movement that shaped Social Security

 https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2024/2024-08-27-edwin-amenta-townsend-plan-and-the-rise-of-social-security.php#:~:text=The%20pensions%20would%20be%20paid,Social%20Security%20we%20know%20today.&text=Would%20you%20like%20to%20get,.uci.edu%20to%20connect.

https://www.knoxfocus.com/archives/this-weeks-focus/the-poet-in-congress-john-s-mcgroarty-of-california/#:~:text=That%20notoriety%20did%20not%20diminish%20his%20(,of%20Representatives%20from%20California's%20Eleventh%20Congressional%20District.

The most unexpected winner of the AI boom? Caterpillar

 https://fortune.com/2026/02/11/the-most-unexpected-winner-of-the-ai-boom-caterpillar/

Woman Arrested After Hitting Boyfriend in the Skull With a Hammer, Leaving Him to Die at a Church

 https://www.usmagazine.com/crime-news/news/woman-hit-boyfriend-in-the-skull-with-a-hammer-left-him-to-die-at-a-church/

The cost of compute: A $7 trillion race to scale data centers

 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/the-cost-of-compute-a-7-trillion-dollar-race-to-scale-data-centers

Inside Virginia's Data Center Suburbs

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu2DTsFg1sc

AI data center infrastructure

 The single largest category of new U.S. investment is AI data center infrastructure, which has already reached a scale that dwarfs anything in recent industrial history. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta collectively poured an estimated $320 billion into AI infrastructure in 2025 alone —more than Finland’s entire gross domestic product— with CreditSights projecting combined capital expenditure nearly doubling to $602 billion in 2026.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/robot-snappers-wednesday-february

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/31/ai-data-centers-debt-sam-altman-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg.html