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Data center developer Crusoe, which counts Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI as its customers, has raised a new $3 billion round at a $30 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported. The deal is being co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners, and includes participation from Mubadala Capital, the asset management subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala. The company recently signed a massive $13 billion, five-year cloud contract to supply quantitative trading firm Jane Street with GPUs and AI infrastructure, Bloomberg reported. The fresh fundraise comes 10 months after Crusoe raised a $1.38 billion round at a $10 billion valuation last…

Of all the epithets thrown at a new prime minister, “people-pleaser” bounces off Andy Burnham. After all, the polls have him with a favourability rating of +13, making him the only party leader who scores above zero. His manner as he responded to all 125 of his questioners on his first Commons appearance this week had a warmth and empathy that his predecessor lacked. It’s a natural timbre, a good bedside manner for an uneasy country.Keir Starmer’s rating as he left office was -36. He was defenestrated precisely because of his unpopularity. That baffled his allies, but his ratings crashed…

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps more than 80 times as much heat than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and causes 25% of global heating today. We definitely don’t want this gas spewing needlessly into the atmosphere, but in 2023 that’s exactly what environment editor Damian Carrington found was happening when he reported on 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks across the globe. Now Turkmenistan, the worst country for mega-leaks, has begun to plug them. Damian tells Madeleine Finlay why some experts call stopping leaks the climate ‘emergency brake’ and reveals which countries are still failing to act.

The Wallabies are no closer to finding their World Cup No 10 after Carter Gordon was relegated to the bench despite being fit to play against Argentina in Mendoza on Saturday (Sunday AEST). Instead, Ben Donaldson has been given another chance to impress at flyhalf – his first start in two years – outside the now-established run on scrumhalf Ryan Lonergan.It is clear the No 10 jersey is up for grabs, even if coach Les Kiss was careful in his choice of language around the non-selection of Gordon, who suffered a facial injury during last week’s win in Jujuy but…

Chicago rapper Lil Durk mounted a rapid-fire defense Thursday, calling nine people to the witness stand — including the wife of one of the government’s star witnesses — on the same day both sides rested their case in the closely watched murder-for-hire trial. The judge then ordered jurors to return Tuesday for closing arguments. Durk, born Durk Banks, is accused of ordering a murder-for-hire plot targeting rival rapper Quando Rondo as “revenge” for the 2020 killing of Banks’ close friend and musical protégé King Von. Prosecutors say Banks placed a bounty on Quando Rondo, whose legal name is Tyquian Bowman,…

The presidency says the ongoing US court case involving President Bola Tinubu is a civil matter and not a criminal matter. Presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga described the matter as a “civil records-disclosure dispute” under the US FOIA and said no court had found Mr Tinubu guilty of criminal wrongdoing. “The matter is a civil records-disclosure dispute under the United States Freedom of Information Act. It is not a criminal case against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, nor has the court found him guilty of any criminal wrongdoing,” Mr Onanuga said. Mr Onanuga accused the opposition of mischaracterising the matter that involves…

Chinedu Eze Aviation experts are of the view that Nigerian airlines are looking at rekindling the viable air travel market across West and Central Africa, projecting that it can generate $1 billion annually when fully developed. For about 20 years, the West Coast was a very lucrative market for Nigerian carriers, but the emergence of Asky Airlines, the diminishing of Nigerians airlines before the current rebirth, ceded the large chunk of the market to other carriers outside Nigeria. Studies carried out by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and African Airlines Association (AFRAA) indicated that there is on-going economic revamp…

Jama Onwubuariri, managing director/co-founder of Trucks Transit Parks (TTP), has stated that Nigeria’s efforts to modernise logistics and ease persistent congestion around its ports through technology could be limited by inadequate infrastructure. Onwubuariri in a recent statement seen by BusinessDay said Ètò (which means arrangement or order in Yoruba), had brought greater predictability to port truck movement, helping to reduce turnaround times from weeks to days and subsequently to less than two days in some operations. However, he said further improvement cannot come from Ètò alone, noting that it would require improvements in terminal operations, cargo documentation, port infrastructure, road…

Compromised CDC Historically, state and local health departments are the ones that make determinations about cases and deaths in an outbreak, and the CDC collects the reports for nationwide reporting. Soon after Pennsylvania health officials announced the deaths, Kennedy got into a heated exchange with Governor Josh Shapiro, who criticized Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric and misinformation as helping to fuel such outbreaks. Kennedy fired back on social media, posting misinformation about the measles vaccine and claiming without evidence that the state may have “fabricated” the deaths. When the CDC initially publicly reported the deaths on August 30, the agency included an…

British people have been urged to have enough food and water on hand to survive a few days without power or water, as the UN said the El Niño climate phenomenon was “supersizing before our eyes”, exacerbating extreme weather events worldwide.Forecasters say they are braced for the biggest El Niño in 1,000 years, bringing wildfires and floods to parts of the world, and the threat of a wet, stormy winter for the UK.As the British government plans a campaign urging citizens to prepare for national emergencies, Angela Eagle told the Guardian the likelihood of a wild winter showed the importance…