The decision came with pointed questions about the high construction costs, with commission members calling the costs per unit “outrageous.” ...

This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line.

Meta has reportedly inked a $10 billion deal with Google for the use of its cloud services.

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company will pay a minimum of $10bn over six years to use Google Cloud’s servers and storage.