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While everyone argues about whether AI will eventually bring about the apocalypse, hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent building the infrastructure underneath it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
As a result, most of the roughly 6,000 confirmed exoplanets are billions of years old and orbit relatively close to their stars.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
And every year billions of gallons of water have to be bought, and brought to L.A. from afar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Mobile UK said that mobile operators had invested "billions of pounds to upgrade their networks across London" and were committed to working with the government and local councils to improve mobile phone service.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
None had ever been found to be older than about 175 million years, which was a puzzle because continental rocks were often billions of years old.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
