Building the smart city: promises, obstacles and the people at its center

Building the smart city: promises, obstacles and the people at its center

At a sprawling urban exhibition in Baku, visitors paused before giant digital screens flashing with flood simulations, subway control systems and virtual replicas of entire neighborhoods. Across space, cities offered a vision of urban life reshaped by artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure and real-time data – a glimpse of what many governments now call the “city…

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Forget Expensive AI Software: 1 Unrecognized Power Play Under  Driving the Tech Revolution

Forget Expensive AI Software: 1 Unrecognized Power Play Under $30 Driving the Tech Revolution

Quick reading Cipher Digital (CIFR) has signed two landmark leases with AWS (15 years, $5.5 billion on Black Pearl) and Google/Fluidstack (10 years, $3.8 billion on Barber Lake), and both projects, scheduled for October 2026, are expected to generate between $669 million and $754 million in average annualized net operating income. Value investors are shifting…

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Select Group expands its hotel platform in the United Kingdom with three golf resorts

Select Group expands its hotel platform in the United Kingdom with three golf resorts

Dubai-based hospitality investment and property development company Select Group has expanded its hospitality platform in the UK with the purchase of three Delta Hotels by Marriott hotels, golf resorts and country clubs. The properties comprise Delta Hotels Breadsall Priory Country Club in Derbyshire, Delta Hotels Tudor Park Country Club in Maidstone, Kent, and Delta Hotels…

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