#infrastructure

#infrastructure

German Minister for Digital Affairs Karsten Wildberger emphasizes that Europe's call for digital sovereignty should not be confused with protectionism. According to him, Europe must develop its own digital infrastructure. This is to reduce dependence on American technology companies. That does not mean that cooperation with the United States should be ruled out. In an interview with Reuters, Wildberger explains that Germany and the European Union can no longer be mere spectators or customers in the digital sector, but must play an active role themselves.

The work began in late 2019, when the city transportation department hired the company Judlau for $101 million to replace corroding steel and decking along the Riverside Drive Viaduct, which towers above the West Side Highway between 153rd And 161st streets. The roadway, which was built in 1928 and last saw major repairs in 1985, had "limited remaining life," city engineers said at the time.

All those (AI) agents need management, automation, scalability control, maintenance, testing and orchestration. This was the central remit that CamundaCon set out to explore. Camunda's process orchestration and automation conference was held this month at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. With end-to-end orchestration in its sights, did the company manage to deliver on its promise of "AI with no BS" (as the banner read on the hotel exterior) or would this event fuel more of the AI hype-cycle?

Kansas has made available $23 million to improve broadband infrastructure through the Kansas Broadband Acceleration Grant (BAG) program. Providers will be able to offset capital expenses they need to deploy service in unserved areas of Kansas with state grants of up to $2 million. Applications will be accepted from today, October 3, through the end of the month. The BAG program is in its fifth year.

Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was finally completed, and to celebrate the achievement, the Governor of New York and other local elected officials engaged in a progressive celebration. They sailed from Lake Erie to New York Harbor with stops at communities along the way. It was like a 10-day tailgate with parties, speeches and all-day public celebrations, and it culminated in a ceremonial "wedding of the waters" when water from Lake Erie was poured into New York Harbor.

A hole opened on a crumbling sidewalk near Battery Park that briefly gave passersby a peephole into the subway - and a reality check about how thin the ground actually is. The baseball-sized hole in the asphalt of Battery Place and State Street opened sometime last week, according to a hair-raising Instagram video, but it has since been covered with an orange traffic cone bolted to the ground.

"Climate tech" isn't a thing. It has shifted in recent years from a category to define clean energy companies to an umbrella phrase that loses meaning the more we use it. Granted, the term is everywhere: inserted into VC pitch decks, plastered on billboards along highways from San Francisco to Austin to Boston, wedged into government policy papers, and featured prominently on conference agendas. Media properties from CNBC to GreenBiz rely on it as a traffic-driving category.

I was supposed to do four years, go through university and head back home for family business, decided I liked tech too much. I got my first job at EMC running their networks across I would say a few hundred offices, which was really interesting. From there, I made my way into an ops role, which is where a lot of what we do at RapDev began.

We all know that reforms are overdue, in bureaucracy, in the welfare state, in the economy,

Eric Trump, the son of US president Donald Trump, has hit out at what he described as Ireland's "incredibly lethargic" planning system.

"Carney recently named the first five projects in the national interest that will be fast-tracked, which is intended to strengthen the country's economy, particularly in the face of U.S. tariffs. One Ontario project was on the initial list building small modular nuclear reactors and Ford said Tuesday that accessing the province's critical mineral-rich Ring of Fire region will be in the next set of projects. It received a nod in Carney's announcement, along with energy, high-speed rail and port projects, suggesting the federal government will indeed work with provinces to bring those to fruition down the line."

"The challenges the State faces today in the delivery of housing and infrastructure are being compounded by the utilisation of our laws in certain circumstances to delay, obfuscate and undermine the efficient delivery of vital projects which would benefit our communities and the common good as a whole," he warned. "In particular, the utilisation of judicial reviews to prevent the delivery of vital accommodation, transport or environmental projects because of technical breaches of statutory rules or procedure is abhorrent to the common good.

To continue his football analogy, Hodgson told host Rosemary Barton he would "describe these five projects as being down in the red zone" the area of a football field close to the goal line. "The Major Projects Office is there to help make sure each of these proponents punches the ball into the end zone, scores a touchdown and builds for Canada."

I'm happy to present today, SB 71 on behalf of Senator Wiener, which will extend the statutory CEQA [California Environmental Quality Act] exemptions for transit and active transportation projects which significantly advance the state's climate, safety, and public health goals while improving access and mobility options to January 1, 2040. SB 71 will also make clarifying changes to existing law and provide exemption parity between ferry and other transit modes.

On August 30, The Wall Street Journal reported that the State of California would not allow Malibu seafood institution the Reel Inn to rebuild on Pacific Coast Highway after the structure burned down in Los Angeles's Palisades Fire in January 2025. In a move that followed days of social media backlash, the California Department of Parks and Recreation issued a letter to Reel Inn on September 5 offering the possibility of reopening the restaurant on the property.

In March 1972, Kurt Stremberg's parents gave him a predawn ride from their house in northwest California to his friend's home in the tiny town of Klamath, about 20 miles south of Crescent City on Highway 101. Stremberg, then 24, and his buddy were going to hitch a ride on a log truck bound for San Francisco, catch a flight to Europe, and see the world.

Just over four years ago, Andrew Cuomo resigned from office. Driven from the governorship over a cascading number of sexual-harassment allegations, he entered the political wilderness only to reemerge this year, when he decided to run for mayor. In the meantime, his little-known lieutenant, Kathy Hochul, became governor. A quiet political force in her own right - she has raised tens of millions of dollars and helped to resurrect a once-moribund statewide

It's a very broad question. But, to start, I think it's important to point out that this is in some respects an entirely new form of business logic and a new form of computing. And so, the first question becomes, if agentic systems are reasoning models coupled with agents that perform tasks by leveraging reasoning models, as well as different tools that have been allocated to them to help them accomplish their tasks ... these models need to run on very high-performance machinery.

Katrina, which was a Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall in southeast Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, remains the costliest U.S. storm on record, with damage estimated at upward of $200 billion when adjusted for inflation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. About 1,400 people died in five states. The failure of the federal levee system inundated about 80% of the city in floodwaters that took weeks to drain.

In the preceding decades of Mao Zedong's long reign, his cyclical policies of class struggle ended up leaving a mess in their wake. Mao achieved some modicum of reduced inequality, albeit in bloody fashion, but those years culminating in the disastrous Cultural Revolution did little to foster economic growth. The government leadership of the '80s, led by Deng Xiaoping, inherited an economy with dismal infrastructure, listless workers, and stagnation.

Colocation capacity in North American datacenters has dropped to a record low of 2.3 percent, with the construction pipeline mostly pre-leased, significantly constraining growth.

The Lewisham upgrade is a £250 million investment to address signalling issues, reflecting a larger trend of increasing rail traffic and age-related infrastructure challenges.

Nebius Group expects an ARR of up to $1.1 billion for 2024, showcasing remarkable growth from $117.5 million previously, indicating its significant potential in the AI sector.

Washington’s deadlock has created a tectonic shift transferring power back to the regions. This allows local leaders to take charge and think big again.

The 'Greater Greenways' plan lays out current and future projects to fill in gaps between bike and pedestrian paths managed by multiple agencies, aiming to create a cohesive network.

Each rainy season in Mexico City seems worse than the last, and year after year it is said to have broken its own record for the amount of water falling from the sky.