● Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires
Paris Marx
Review via CNET
There is no stronger metaphor for the manifestation of Big Tech’s power than the increasing sprawl of data centers. Amazon, Microsoft and Google alone control 59% of hyperscale data center capacity. In his new book available now, Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires, Marx, host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, highlights how global data center protests are one of many ways that communities are pushing back against Big Tech’s power over us…. Before, a large data center might require around 50 megawatts of power to keep everything running. Now, hyperscale data centers can require triple that amount of power. Newer ones, like Meta’s Louisiana data center, may require 4,500 megawatts (4.5 gigawatts) — staggering demand that officials say is four times more than all of the electricity used in New Orleans on its hottest day in 2025. It’s more than the two gigawatts the Hoover Dam produces.

● Profit from the Profit: The Past, Present & Future of Dividend Growth Investing
David Bahnsen
Interview with author via Bloomberg’s At The Money podcast
Investors who want to reduce risk but still maintain equity exposure may want to explore dividend equities. David Bahnsen is founder, managing partner and chief investment office of The Bahnsen Group, a national private wealth management firm. His new book is “Profit from the profit: the past, present, and future of dividend growth investing.”

● Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy
Isabella Weber
Interview with author via Jacobin
The economist Isabella Weber is best known for her work on what is often called “seller’s inflation,” the ability of firms with market power to hike prices and boost profits during an emergency. During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Weber was one of the loudest voices criticizing those who treated inflation purely as a product of too much demand, earning the censure of establishment economists in the process. Six years on, her arguments have been largely vindicated. It is clear that while constraints to supply did cause some prices to spike, the resulting cost shocks coordinated corporate pricing that spread inflation across the whole economy.

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