billions

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Data center developers say their projects will bring billions of dollars of new property on the tax rolls, work training opportunities, job creation and private investment in communities.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Investors have poured billions into the hunt for the next Keytruda.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Its Starlink broadband product has amassed more than 10 million customers and generated billions of dollars in annual earnings.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

It will deny billions of dollars in stock purchases of the company, Musk’s latest to go public.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

It took nature hundreds of millions of years to evolve a bacterium, and billions to make a grasshopper.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan