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County consultant, said there are other ways to get people indoors than investing billions of dollars in new housing that takes years to build.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026

Meta is reportedly also considering getting into the cloud-computing business and leasing out some of the computing power it’s spent hundreds of billions of dollars amassing in the past few years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026

Elon Musk is preparing to spend billions of dollars to bring his chip-making vision to life, and that could double the size of one corner of the semiconductor market, according to UBS.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 7, 2026

But green groups have criticised plans to transfer billions of euros from a special climate fund to the regular budget.

From Barron's • Jul. 6, 2026

And there are billions of planets where there is no life, but there is no one on those planets with brains to notice.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon