Meta Platforms is planning on spending nearly $1 billion on setting up a data center project in central Wisconsin as part of its investment in artificial intelligence technology, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
Wisconsin in February reached an agreement with an unnamed company using an alias to develop a data center in the state with an expected multiyear investment of $837 million, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.
The company behind the project is Meta, the report said.
Both Meta and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp declined to comment on the report when contacted by Reuters.
Investment in data centers has seen an uptick as technology giants have ramped up capex to meet the computing power needed to run generative AI applications such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
Meta has earmarked as much as $65 billion this year to expand its AI infrastructure amid investor pressure on big tech firms to show returns on their investments.
The Supreme Court on Fridayoverruled an activist judge in Boston, allowing the Trump administration to slash $250 million for more than 100 teacher training grants for DEI and other woke programs.
In a 5-4 decision nine days after the request, the Supremes sided with the Trump administration's emergency request to stay the court order by judge Myong J. Joun of the federal District of Massachusetts - who had ordered the Trump administration to "immediately restore" the "pre-existing status quo prior to the termination."
According to the ruling - which is likely to narrow the ability of district courts to halt agency actions involving grant function, Joun lacked authority to order the Trump admin to restore the funding.
BREAKING: A 5-4 Supreme Court *grants* the Trump administration's emergency request to stay a Massachusetts court order requiring it to reinstate $250 million in Department of Education teacher training grants to eight states. Roberts & liberals dissenthttps://t.co/TXun2QPChcpic.twitter.com/9BUP5Lou59
In his ruling, Myong sided with California and eight other blue states that argued that the cuts were likely driven by efforts by the Trump administration to gut DEI programs (duh).
Meet the federal Judge who just blocked President Trump’s cuts to DEI teacher training.
His resume is full of DEI activism, he served on the board of groups currently suing President Trump, and trained far-left activists how to avoid arrests during protests.
The cuts were announced on Feb. 17, following findings by DOGE that taxpayer funds were being used to "train teachers and education agencies on divisive ideologies" that were "inappropriate and unnecessary," including "critical race theory,; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); social justice activism; ‘anti-racism’; and instruction on white privilege and white supremacy."
And of course, dissenting in the Supreme Court decision were Justices Jackson, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Chief Justice Roberts.
Adams — after Manhattan federal Judge Dale Ho tossed the charges for good Wednesday — closed a victorious address outside Gracie Mansion by holding up a book from Trump partisan and current FBI Director Kash Patel called “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy.”
Eric Adams said he is leaving the Democratic Party to run as an independent in his reelection campaign.Youtube/ FLAGRANT
“Of course, of course, we like Kash. But is this like what people refer to? And I think this word has been used too much, but like the deep state or whatever it is,” Schulz pushed back.
“It’s not used too much. It’s real, brother,” Adams responded.
The mayor forged ahead, “(Patel) comes with this wealth of knowledge and the way he breaks it down, it’s just unbelievable what this deep state is about and why it’s so important for Americans that we cannot have a weaponizing of our prosecutorial powers.”
Adams has contended that Southern District of New York prosecutors targeted him after he spoke up about former President Joe Biden’s dealing with the migrant crisis.
He acknowledged on the podcast that it was a situation that struck a chord with Trump, who has maintained his myriad criminal cases were retribution by his political enemies.
Eric Adams praised FBI director Kash Patel’s 2023 book, “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy.” Amazon
“He didn’t have to come out on his campaign trail and say, this is wrong what they’re doing to Eric,” Adams gratefully said of Trump. “He did it at rallies.”
Federal prosecutors started their corruption probe into Adams in 2021 – before he was elected mayor and before hundreds of thousands of migrants ended up in New York City.
The historic indictment against Adams accused him of accepting bribes from Turkish nationals in the form of luxury travel perks such as flight upgrades.
Adams, though he spilled his guts about the deep state with Schulz, didn’t entirely open up with the popular podcaster.
Schulz jokingly asked Adams what’s the best “bodega boner pill.”
“If I answer that, I’ll be on the front page of The Post,” Adams said.
Rescued US astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore revealed that malfunctions on the Boeing Starliner were far dire than originally reported as the latter described the stomach-dropping moment they lost all control of the capsule.
Wilmore gave a near minute-by-minute retelling of what went through his mind when four thrusters on the Boeing-made spacecraft failed while he and Williams were attempting to dock at the International Space Station.
The near-catastrophic crisis caused Wilmore to lose full control of the plagued capsule, leaving the seasoned astronauts floating in the vast void of space until NASA’s mission control came to their rescue.
The NASA astronauts said the Boeing Starliner malfunctioned as it approached the International Space Station.AP
Wilmore explained that flight regulations typically call for malfunctioned ships to abort docking – even within close range to the ISS – and return to Earth. But NASA waived that mandate, he said.
Panic eventually began to set in as the pair attempted to direct the defective ship toward the ISS.
“So there we are, loss of 6DOF control, four aft thrusters down, and I’m visualizing orbital mechanics,” Wilmore explained.
Wilmore said the loss of the capsule’s four thrusters almost left them floating in space until mission control stepped in.AP
“The space station is nose down. So we’re not exactly level with the station, but below it. If you’re below the station, you’re moving faster. That’s orbital mechanics. It’s going to make you move away from the station,” he continued.
“So I’m doing all of this in my mind. I don’t know what control I have. What if I lose another thruster? What if we lose comm? What am I going to do?”
The space explorer said he had shared concerns about the capsule’s thrusters – which are essential for docking – with Boeing in the months prior to takeoff after an uncrewed flight test to the space station experienced similar malfunctions.
Butch Wilmore interviewed at Johnson Space Center on March 31 in Houston, Texas.AP
Mission control eventually instructed Wilmore to relinquish all remaining control of the capsule to allow NASA to reset the thrusters – a directive he said “was not easy to do.”
The remote override restored two of the failed thrusters, giving the ship just enough control to safely dock at the space station.
“I did this little happy dance,” Williams, 59, told the outlet.
Butch Wilmore is helped out of SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN.via REUTERS
“One, of course, just because I love being in space and am happy to be on the space station and with great friends up there. Two, just really happy that Starliner docked to the space station,” she said. “My feeling at that point in time was like, ‘Oh, phew, let’s just take a breather and try to understand what happened.'”
Wilmore, on the other hand, knew that their problems had only just begun and would likely need another way home.
“I was thinking, we might not come home in the spacecraft. We might not,” Wilmore added.
The pair made their dramatic return to Earth on March 18.NASA via Getty Images “And one of the first phone calls I made was to Vincent LaCourt, the ISS flight director, who was one of the ones that made the call about waiving the flight rule. I said, ‘OK, what about this spacecraft, is it our safe haven?'”
The pair have recently spoken out after making a dramatic return to Earth from the ISS on March 18 after spending a total of 286 days in space – a staggering 278 days longer than anticipated.
The NASA duo had set off on what was supposed to be an eight-day test flight on Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft last June until mechanical issues kept them stranded in space for more than nine months.
Their unplanned jaunt quickly captured the world’s attention, turning the pair into household names.
