- AT&T seeks blue-collar workers (electricians, technicians) for AI/data center infrastructure amid blue-collar job boom
- AI exposure threatens entry-level white-collar roles (marketing, legal, HR) while creating demand for skilled trades
- Nvidia’s Huang projects 6-figure salaries for plumbers/electricians in AI-fueled infrastructure buildout
- AT&T to invest $250B over 5 years, with 15% allocated to hiring/training front-line technicians
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Macro/Economy 3
- Q1 2026 figures for "Loans and Bills Discounted by Sector" and "Loans to Households" now posted on BOJ Time-Series Data Search.
- Revisions applied to series from Q3 2024 through Q4 2025, covering outstanding loans for fixed investment and new loans by Shinkin banks.
- Data include domestic licensed banks (banking, trust, overseas office accounts) and Shinkin banks, detailing loan amounts, borrower counts and consumer loans.
- Server electricity consumption projected at 446‑818 BkWh by 2050
- Standalone data centers could use 581 BkWh in 2050 under high demand scenario
- Servers accounted for about 7% of commercial electricity use in 2025
- Servers' share of commercial building electricity expected to rise to 22‑33% by 2050
Central Banks 1
- Kevin Warsh to be sworn in as Federal Reserve chair on Friday
- Senate confirms Warsh in nearly total party-line vote
- Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell, who continues to serve on a pro-tempore basis
Tech/AI 1
- New search box accepts multimodal inputs (text, images, PDFs, videos, Chrome tabs) and dynamically expands for conversational queries
- AI Overviews and AI Mode merged into single seamless experience, eliminating user choice between traditional and AI-driven results
- AI Mode usage hit 1B monthly users in first year, with queries doubling quarterly; AI Overviews reach 2.5B monthly users
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