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“For the last three years, a permitted block closure in the center of our general footprint turns into a fun street party with three musical stages,” said Gould, a co-organizer.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Through July of this year, a seasonally adjusted $37 billion has been spent on private data- center construction—about $9 billion more than in the first seven months of last year, according to the Commerce Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But she added that the people who live in and around the park should be at the center of any assessment of how conditions are changing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Garces Perez says doctors couldn’t remove the bullet because it had lodged near his spine and ICE wanted to move him to a detention center, where he remains in custody.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
He moved the heavy, wobbly old wardrobe away from the wall with surprising ease and pulled my bed into the center of the room.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Given long wait times to connect to the power grid, many data centers are deciding to go it alone and build their own power generation on site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Meta makes most of its money from advertising but it’s been investing heavily in building new AI hardware and data centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Data center developers and tech companies have been locking down power generation equipment, from turbines to reciprocating engines and fuel cells, as they race to connect data centers to electricity sources as quickly as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Although the research centers on just one galaxy, the method could eventually have much wider applications.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Lifeless except for overcrowded, overflowing evacuation centers, looking like anthills spaced out at five-mile intervals.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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There, the discussion shifted from seven-part heroes’ journeys centered on skipping little luxuries like Starbucks to drink-based dominance theory.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Much of the previous research has centered on inflammation in the brain and changes in immune activity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
When Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said earlier this week that the best was yet to come, his expectations were centered on the offense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
An alternative path would see flows of exports and imports centered on free trade agreements, which have proliferated in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The worship of Dionysus was centered in these two ideas so far apart—of freedom and ecstatic joy and of savage brutality.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Her manager told her that people would probably be more interested in her memoir before a series centering on magic and dragons, so she started writing her own story two years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“My job is to always be centering folks in the work.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
In Memphis, Tenn., 31-year old Justin Pearson is finding support by centering data-center opposition in his Democratic campaign for Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Going into the tournament there was a lot of talk centering on how Aronimink could prove too easy for the world's best.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Much of the centering was also in place.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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