Big Tech Picks Up Data Center Bills? & Apple Intros Low-Cost Laptop
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What is Big Tech's pledge regarding data center bills?
Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, America's new Gilded Age is in Wyoming. Then Apple just released its cheapest laptop ever. It's Thursday, March 5th. Let's ride. think we're all in need for a feel-good story, and I think I found just the one. So each year in Paris, a competition is held, the Grand Prix de la Baguette de Tradition Française, to determine the best classical baguette in the French capital.
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The winner receives 4,000 euros and the opportunity to supply bread to the French president's residence for the next year, plus immense bragging rights. The blind tasting competition was held last weekend, and the victor was Sithampari Pillai Jegathipan, a 43-year-old Sri Lankan immigrant who taught himself to bake in 2008. He is the second immigrant from Sri Lanka to win the competition in the last three years and joins other baguette makers from West Africa, Algeria, and Tunisia who've been crowned the best bread maker in Paris. Toby, I am submitting my candidacy as a judge for next year's Grand Prix. This is a serious operation. The judges grade the entries on five criteria, appearance, cooking, inner texture, smell, and taste.
Aesthetics are huge when it comes to brand. You need the crunch of the outer shell to pair well with the soft texture inner pockets of air it should look like a beehive very uniform air pocket distribution and each group of judges gets five baguettes at a time so most of them say if you are a rookie to the judging aspect of this you take too big of bites you fill up too soon so you have to pace yourself throughout the uh the afternoon also as soon as the winner was announced people went to google to check out this uh this bakery and someone screenshotted the google reviews of this place 88 reviews, 3.8 stars. So maybe take it with a grain of salt or a grain of yeast whenever you're shopping around for a baguette to try in Paris.
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When Trump was running for office, a core pledge of his was to cut electricity prices in half, but your bill has likely gone in the exact opposite direction. The cause is no secret. Power-hungry data centers are popping up everywhere, pulling billions of dollars worth of electricity off the grid, contributing to an affordability crisis that is looming over midterm elections. So Trump told tech CEOs to meet him in his office. Yesterday, leaders from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others made the trip to the White House to sign the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. The promise is, you build these data centers, you pay for your own power. No more plugging into the grid and sticking regular old Americans with the bill.
The companies also agreed to work on individual pricing deals with different power providers, put money into training local workers, and use their facilities to help power neighborhoods during power outages. Sounds good on paper, but many are criticizing the pledge for looking a lot like Neil at five months old. A little toothless. The federal government has limited control over the energy market since electrical grids are regulated state by state. So outside a new federal law, it will be difficult to make this pledge stick. Neil, great photo op, but critics are saying it's more of a political move ahead of the midterms than real policy at this point.
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