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Google data center explodes, causing injuries and outages

Google data center explodes, causing injuries and outages

A small section inside a Google data center in western Iowa exploded late Monday night, injuring workers and bringing about temporary outages to some of Google’s most popular services including Gmail, YouTube and the Google search engine. The explosion at the data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, caused injuries to three employees, local officials said. “Three workers were accessing an electrical cabinet when there was an arc flash that resulted in all three being burned,” Justin James,… Source link

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Affirm stock explodes more than 40% after Amazon deal — here’s why, financially speaking

Affirm stock explodes more than 40% after Amazon deal — here’s why, financially speaking

Affirm (AFRM) is poised to show investors a major jolt in its top and bottom lines amid its new tie-up with Amazon (AMZN).  Shares of Affirm exploded more than 40% in pre-market trading on Monday after unveiling a new partnership with Amazon. The stock was the No. 1 trending ticker on the Yahoo Finance platform, too. Under the deal, Affirm — a leader in the buy now, pay later space — will help Amazon consumers finance large purchases.  Select Amazon customers will now have the option to… Source link

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Covid wards ‘full of children’ as UK pandemic explodes

Covid wards ‘full of children’ as UK pandemic explodes

Britain has reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and shut primary schools in London on Friday (local time) to counter the rapid spread of a much more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus. With more than 50,000 new daily cases of Covid-19 for the last four days, the health service said it was preparing for an anticipated rush of patients and needed more beds. The announcement comes just days after the Royal London Hospital told staff in an email it was now… Source link

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