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That’s in part because last month, Bare and other opponents filed two lawsuits challenging the data center, including one that required they sue their own neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
But in some cases, there really does appear to be an increase — and California is front and center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
If valence quarks alone carried the baryon number, explaining the excess away from the beamline would require all three valence quarks from one colliding proton to stop near the center of the detector.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
When the data center issue first flared up last year, Bare was in the hospital with a severe spinal infection, fielding worried updates from her mother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Apparently he did not know of the regulation that forbade prisoners to step on the mat, for he indicated that I was to walk ahead of him down the center of the hall.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Each quarter, big tech companies disclose their massive capital expenditures on artificial-intelligence infrastructure, from data centers to chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
One of the studies included 1,000 people with heart failure who were treated at 43 centers across the Netherlands.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The franchise fled further and further from coastal cultural centers, shifting from the “Real World” of New York City and Chicago to the air-conditioned enclaves of New Jersey and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Like the rest of the nation, California has seen a remarkable explosion in demand for electricity, driven in large part by the rise of artificial intelligence data centers, electric vehicles and building electrification.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Some went to evacuation centers, only to find that the centers were in the path of the tsunami.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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California’s law was passed following a large measles outbreak centered at Disneyland that resulted in 131 cases in California alone, and spread to six other states, as well as Canada and Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The movement, centered largely in Silicon Valley, aims to use data and reason to determine how to do the most good possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
For many years, the debate centered on two main possibilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
The former public health director has stuck to a platform centered on affordability at home and an end to foreign entanglements.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
It’s centered around fifteen-year-old twin sisters, Angel and Skylar, who are devastated to learn one twin is about to die and immediately seek out Life-Cast’s services to find out when Skylar will be reincarnated.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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In fact, she was treating herself daily to gelato and centering carbs at every meal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Going into the tournament there was a lot of talk centering on how Aronimink could prove too easy for the world's best.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
This time, instead of centering around the private sector, a Treasury crisis could hamper the government’s ability to finance itself.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
Baile World is the brainchild of co-founder Courtney Hollinquest, a staple of L.A.’s nightlife scene known for centering POC femmes — both in terms of the audience she curates and the DJs she books.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
One by one the cut stones of the ribs, called voussoirs, were hoisted onto the centering and mortared into place by the masons.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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