David Brancaccio

president has chosen his nominee for second most powerful economic policy position in the country.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

This morning, President Trump revealed his choice to lead the Federal Reserve.

It is Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor and more recent Fed critic.

If confirmed by the Senate, Warsh would replace Jerome Powell, whose term expires in May.

Warsh had called for, quote, regime change at the Fed, Marketplace's Nova Safo reports.

With electricity-hungry artificial intelligence, there's concern about power shortages, higher bills for consumers, and environmental degradation.

Some big companies are paying to restart nuclear plants.

On a different scale, there's Redwood Materials, a startup that takes used electric vehicle batteries to help power a data center in, for instance, Nevada.

Colin Campbell is chief technology officer at Redwood Materials.

That's just a slice from our series from my colleagues Megan McCarty Carino and Kai Risdahl on this AI boom.

Among the angles, comparing similarities and differences between AI fever now and the dot-com bubble and bust from the turn of the century, Marketplace Tech, Marketplace's half-hour program, and us here in the morning have parts of that.

Now in Malagasy, the language of Madagascar.

That means I speak Malagasy really badly.

But I can't at least say that because I lived in Madagascar for my ninth grade.

Long story why, but among the many things I can tell you about that island nation off of East Africa, it really has lemurs, its economy is challenged, and the ruts on its red earth roads could swallow a Volkswagen.

So when our colleagues at the BBC pitched a story about Madagascar opening its first stretch of modern highway, I was especially interested in the economic, ecological and cultural impacts.

Here's reporter Andre Lombard.

Andre Lombard is with our newsroom partners at the BBC.

In Los Angeles, I'm David Brancaccio.