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Texas faces hurricane threat next week

Bloomberg Tropical Storm Beta formed in the Gulf of Mexico, where it could menace the south Texas coast as a hurricane next week. Beta has winds of 60 miles (95 kilometers) per hour and was about 305 miles east of the mouth of the Rio Grande, the US National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 11 pm New York ...

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Latin American cities bustle like Covid is gone, but it’s not

Bloomberg Rush hour is back with a vengeance in Mexico City, diners have returned to restaurants in Bogota and joggers have flocked to Buenos Aires’s parks. In Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, crowds have packed beaches and even the sprawling fake lawn beneath Alphabet Inc’s regional headquarters. In Latin America’s big cities, as in other places around the globe, ...

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Google targets carbon-free power for data centers by 2030

Bloomberg By the start of the next decade Google wants to make sure all the electricity it uses for its data centers and offices will be truly 100% carbon free. Under its previous pledge the tech giant has been offsetting its consumption with direct renewable electricity purchases and the associated certificates. On paper, that allowed it to claim it used ...

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