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Business 5 min The Pentagon May Lend $5bn for Data-Centre Parts, Not Data Centres The Office of Strategic Capital would be making its largest single loan, aimed at the component bottleneck rat... DA Daniel Koh 13 Sep

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Business 6 min China Plans 9,800 Exaflops by 2030. That Is Slower Than Last Year. The MIIT five-year plan targets 9,800 exaflops by 2030, up from 2,185 at FP16 in June. That implies about 40 p... EV Eva Chin 9 Sep

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Business 7 min SpaceX's 125,000 Louisiana Acres Are About Regulatory Headroom SpaceX will build a $100bn launch complex on 125,000 acres of former Exxon land on Louisiana's southern coast,... DA Daniel Koh 27 Aug

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Business 8 min South Korea's 800 Trillion Won Budget Is Not a Budget Yet The cabinet approves it on 1 September and the Assembly has yet to pass it. The dollar figure reported ranges... DA Daniel Koh 26 Aug

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Business 7 min Japan's Extra $944m for Rapidus Is a Budget Request, Not a Cheque The money is sought in METI's fiscal 2027 budget, and its purpose is to raise the company's capital so banks w... SA Sarah Chew 26 Aug