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Alec MacGillis

@alecmacgillis
16 posts
2024-10-14
Data centers are consuming so much energy that a coal-fired power plant in Omaha that has long been polluting a low-income community is going to be kept open longer than planned: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-10-14 View on X
Washington Post

An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply

An energy crunch forces continued coal burning in a low-income area as data centers strain the regional power supply  —  https://archive.ph/...  https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ......

2022-11-01
“Five workers [said] the situation at the [Apple Foxconn] plant had deteriorated...w/ food and medical supplies running low and workers locked in dormitory rooms for quarantine.” 'It was total chaos in the dorms...We jumped ...a metal fence to get out.'" https://www.ft.com/...
2022-11-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Inside Foxconn's Zhengzhou iPhone plant as the company uses harsh lockdown measures to try to contain a weekslong COVID-19 outbreak in a crucial ordering period

Military moving into the Chinese iPhone factory to reinforce lockdown. Zhengzhou City October 30th, 2022 https://twitter.com/... Dan Nystedt / @dnystedt : A Covid-19 outbreak at th...

2022-09-26
“Trucking contractors that worked frequently for Amazon were more than twice as likely as all other similar companies to receive bad unsafe driving scores, the Journal analysis found.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-09-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Analysis: Amazon's regular trucking contractors were more than twice as likely as other companies to get unsafe driving scores from February 2020 to August 2022

Its regular contractors were more than twice as likely to receive unsafe driving scores compared with similar outfits; Amazon says its network is safe Tweets: @jamieson , @anthony ...

2022-05-23
“In the months ahead, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon are expected to boost hiring, buy more businesses and emerge on the other side of a bearish economy stronger and more powerful — even if they shed some of their total valuation.” #fulfillment https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-05-23 View on X
New York Times

Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google will emerge stronger from this downturn; Refinitiv: from 2008 to 2010, these companies acquired 100+ firms

Flush with cash, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are positioned to emerge from a downturn stronger and more powerful.  As usual.

2021-09-21
Just in case there was still any notion that the pandemic was going to reverse the growing concentration of wealth and prosperity in a handful of mostly coastal metropolises: https://www.wsj.com/... #fulfillment
2021-09-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Google says it will buy St. John's Terminal, a 1.3M square foot office building it is leasing on Manhattan's West Side, for $2.1B in Q1 2022

Manhattan deal is priciest sale of a U.S. office building since pandemic began  —  Google said it is buying a Manhattan office building for $2.1 billion … Source: The Keyword .

2021-06-30
It's boom times for all the law firms hired by the tech giants to defend themselves against the government's anti-trust cases: Google alone has hired 51 lawyers from 21 firms. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-06-30 View on X
New York Times

The mounting legal and regulatory scrutiny of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google has led to a growing demand for lawyers who work in corporate competition law

It's boom times for all the law firms hired by the tech giants to defend themselves against the government's anti-trust cases: Google alone has hired 51 lawyers from 21 firms. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-06-30 View on X
Axios

Dismissals of FTC and state AGs suits against Facebook shows the difficulty of making antitrust charges stick and could spur lawmakers to toughen antitrust laws

and how Facebook's big court win could actually help it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : “This is going to strengthen the case for legislation,...

2021-06-16
Pretty striking: @linamkhan, author of groundbreaking “Amazon's Antitrust Paradox” article, gets 21 Republican votes for her Senate confirmation to the FTC: https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-16 View on X
New York Times

Biden names Lina Khan, an antitrust expert who wrote the “Amazon Antitrust Paradox”, as FTC chair, after the Senate voted 69-28 to confirm her as commissioner

Ms. Khan, who first attracted notice as a critic of Amazon, was confirmed by the Senate as a commissioner on the agency on Tuesday.

2020-12-03
Digital ads just became the majority of all ad spending. And three companies control nearly two-thirds of digital $$. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

GroupM expects marketers to spend $110.1B on digital ads in the US this year, accounting for more than half of the year's total ad spend for the first time

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal :

2020-11-28
Meanwhile, from @KYWeise: “Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its work force to more than 1.2 million globally, up more than 50 percent from a year ago. Its number of workers now approaches the entire population of Dallas.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-11-28 View on X
New York Times

Amazon has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, an average of 1,400 a day, bringing its global workforce to more than 1.2 million, up 50%+ YoY

The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million.

2020-06-24
And there it is: “Digital advertising on platforms such as Google, Facebook and Alibaba is set this year to overtake spending on traditional media for the first time, a historic shift in market share that has been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.” https://www.ft.com/...
2020-06-24 View on X
Financial Times

GroupM: digital ad spend is predicted to overtake spending on traditional media for the first time in 2020, excluding online ads sold by old media outlets

Alex Barker / Financial Times : Tweets: @wfamarketers , @intpolgroup , @alecmacgillis , and @rowlybourne Tweets: WFA / @wfamarketers : WFA research quoted in the @FT today shows g...

2019-12-10
Further evidence that growing regional inequality is *the* story of our moment: pretty incredible @BrookingsMetro finding that >90 percent of all growth in innovation jobs (software, pharma etc) between 2005 and 2017 was clustered in just five metro areas. https://www.brookings.edu/...
2019-12-10 View on X
Wired

Analysis shows five cities, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, San Diego, and Boston, gained the lion's share of “innovation industry” US jobs from 2005 to 2017

Five coastal cities—San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, San Diego, and Boston—gained the lion's share of lucrative “innovation industry” jobs from 2005 to 2017.

2019-10-12
“Rockefeller largely contented himself with oil wells, pump stations, and railcars; Gates's fortune depended on an operating system. The scope of the empire [Bezos] has built is wider...without precedent in...American capitalism.” @FranklinFoer goes big: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2019-10-12 View on X
New Yorker

A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators

We created this page to provide customers … Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News : Amazon takes public stand on minimum wage, climate change Eugene Kim / CNBC : Amazon says punishing cou...

2019-10-11
“Rockefeller largely contented himself with oil wells, pump stations, and railcars; Gates's fortune depended on an operating system. The scope of the empire [Bezos] has built is wider...without precedent in...American capitalism.” @FranklinFoer goes big: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2019-10-11 View on X
New Yorker

A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant.  But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

2019-10-10
The print headline says it all (and is notably sharper than the Web one.) https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2019-10-10 View on X
The Verge

Facebook's choice to allow political ads with misinformation, while making ad details public, is not a perfect decision but it is a sensible and democratic one

It's a problem that needs more than a technical solution  —  If you see an ad on Facebook, should the contents of that ad be true?

The print headline says it all (and is notably sharper than the Web one.) https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2019-10-10 View on X
New York Times

Facebook refuses Biden campaign's request to take down a misleading Trump campaign ad, rejected by CNN, reigniting a debate about Facebook and political speech

including ones that air the same lies that TV stations won't. Here's an example of an ad that Facebook let Trump run despite being obviously untrue: https://popular.info/... pic.t...