2025-02-19
Read The Big Take: There are a limited number of US visas up for grabs each year for high-skilled workers. Former staffers say India's biggest outsourcing firm, Tata Consultancy Services, made repeated use of manager-level visas to game the system. 🔗🚶: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
Bloomberg
Internal documents, emails, and federal data suggest Indian IT giant TCS has used L-1A manager visas in ways that raise concerns about undercutting US workers
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2024-06-22
Read The Big Take: New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. 🔗⚡️🤖: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video]
Bloomberg
Analysis: the AI frenzy is expected to drive the global data center energy consumption to 1,580 TWh by 2034, about as much as is used by all of India currently
Which makes me wonder why they don't build huge data centres in northern Quebec. — Close to hydro generation. — Free cooling, both ambient air and the cold river water. — Do ...
Read The Big Take: New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. 🔗⚡️🤖: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video]
Washington Post
As power needs of AI push emissions up, tech companies explore experimental clean energy projects such as atomic fusion and futuristic geothermal power plants
As power needs of AI push emissions up and put big tech in a bind, companies put their faith in elusive — some say improbable — technologies.
2022-03-15
.@netflix releases statistics like “26 million people watched this show in the first 28 days.” That sounds impressive. But we don't know what it really means. 🍿 These are Netflix's most popular shows (according to Netflix) 🔗: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Analysis: TV shows make up ~75% of Netflix's top 10 lists, the average hit fades after two weeks or less, and Asian hits overlap the least with other markets
Nobody in Hollywood knows for sure what works on Netflix. — The company releases statistics like “26 million people watched this show in the first 28 days.”
2021-08-09
The stereotype of Asian Americans—the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group—as privileged and upwardly mobile is misleading. The reality is more complicated. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg