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“In addition, this project will help strengthen our regional and state electric grid capacity and prevent the kinds of rolling blackouts that we’ve seen in past years and that have negatively impacted businesses and residents.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Chief executive, Karim Fatehi said: "Small businesses cannot afford to worry about business rates and taxation."

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Investors have been eager to pore over the particulars, which will include financial statements, details of SpaceX’s various businesses including the recently added xAI artificial-intelligence business and the ownership structure.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Meanwhile, Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, has benefited from businesses shifting their computing workloads online—a trend now accelerating further as AI increasingly gets integrated into the workflow.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

However, in reality, women and girls like Maria often learned—and performed—much of the work required of their family businesses in addition to their household duties.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman