…The comparison is undoubtedly painful for TSMC workers, who have no union and no formal mechanism to negotiate collectively; the company has operated without a labor union since its founding in 1987…
…and the one thing that could genuinely help — treating the facility’s tax base as a community windfall rather than a negotiating chip — is precisely what most states are legislating away.
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…The most authoritative numbers come from a congressionally mandated 2024 report by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , published by the U.S. Department of Energy. It found that data centers consumed about 4…
…Apple to Announce More App Store Concessions for the EU Apple is engaged in eleventh-hour negotiations with European Union regulators in an effort to delay or avoid a new wave of…
…The move also involved Apple performing intense negotiations with its suppliers and assembly partners, bringing the cost of manufacturing as low as feasibly possible for Apple. At the same time, Cook also…
…estimated at $35 billion in new Nvidia chips bought by OpenAI, for every $10 billion Nvidia invests in OpenAI. [ 161 ] As of January 2026, negotiations had not progressed beyond early stages, and…
…This review is reader-sponsored—generous donations from viewers like you contributed to the hardware and labor costs. As usual, Amazon has touted the new eero Max 7 as its “most advanced…
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