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...Kentucky’s state pension funds this year also opted not to divest, despite anti-ESG legislation....
...The potential expansion of Tesla’s global factory network comes as growth in global EV sales slows. The group is also building a plant in Mexico that is expected to come online in 2026....
...This ease with which this new group has fanned across vast swaths of the west’s internet infrastructure underlines the nature of much of the ransomware threatening businesses around the world....
...Republican attorneys-general in 24 states including Alabama, Kentucky and West Virginia sued the EPA last month in an effort to roll back rules curbing air pollution and capping methane leaks from the oil...
...The outflows started in 2022 after West Virginia state treasurer Riley Moore included BlackRock on the nation’s first list of financial firms deemed to boycott fossil fuel companies....
...While such networks have been criticised internationally for enabling mass surveillance by China’s security agencies, the networks give driverless car developers a distinct advantage compared with other...
...huge beneficiary of increasing returns from international trade, having created a tech and logistics layer for getting cheap manufactured goods reliably from Asian factories to a huge end market in the West...
...A network of state-run data centres and online platforms has been built over the past year where AI companies can rent computing power....
...Ford makes much of its profits from pick-ups, while the Kentucky plant that manufactures the Super Duty is the single most profitable factory in the carmaker’s entire global network....
...PacifiCorp joins other utilities confronting emerging risks from climate change including hotter, drier weather that make wildfires more likely — especially in the US west....
...Campbell, the professor who drove to Michigan, said he began planning a trip to Kentucky but eventually scrapped his plans after realising he couldn’t “reasonably” drive through West Virginia....
...But Aaron Sorkin, the creator of The West Wing and screenwriter of The Social Network, left the agency and returned to WME following the incident. CAA and Endeavor declined to comment....
...For those in the west, Brooks says, matchmaking features can be “amusing”, even “transformative”. We can be delusional about ourselves and our interests — notably our athleticism....
...Eighteen states have passed some form of anti-ESG law, and Texas and West Virginia among others are boycotting BlackRock funds....
...Critics worry about the potential surveillance and malign influence that China could exert over TikTok's users at a time of deteriorating relations between east and west....
...Already in Henley-on-Thames, the wealthy river town west of London, demand for flexible space had doubled, said IWG and the consultancy Arup....
...“In the automotive space, not everyone can win,” and right now, it is “the Wild West out there”....
...The battle came as the relationship between Big Tech companies and payment firms has become increasingly complex, with the west coast giants expanding their reach into financial services....
...With their carefully cultivated networks in the west, they were an indispensable tool for Russia Inc, which still wanted to make money as part of the global economy....
...In the Europa League, West Ham and Sparta Prague have common shareholders, as do Brighton and Union Saint-Gilloise....
...“The message is that North Korea is not that different, that it’s not the weird, evil country with a starving population that the west paints it as.”...
...investors: “What it’s really going to do is give some of the major population centres in the US access to local and regional skiing on the same pass that they can access destination resorts within our network...
...“There is a network effect, and the big party will always win in the long term,” they said....
...The WaterWheel Network online platform enables data centres and others to farm out computing power to AI companies training large language models....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 18. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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