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How can an economy even begin to recover from something like this?

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In the months since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, Palestine’s economy has been radically altered. Today, we hear about the conflict’s impact on the West Bank, Palestinian tax revenue and what recovery from such destruction and devastation in Gaza could potentially look like. Plus, the rise in artificial intelligence requires lots of data computing centers to power that AI. And all those data centers use lots of electricity.

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My name is Lee Hawkins. I've been a journalist for over 25 years.

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On my new podcast, What Happened in Alabama, I get answers to some of the

0:46.4

hardest questions about how things came to be for many black Americans and the

0:51.6

truth that must come before any reconciliation can happen.

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I investigate my family history, my upbringing in Minnesota, and my father's painful nightmares

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about growing up in Alabama.

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What happened in Alabama is a new series confronting the cycles of trauma for myself,

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my family, and for many black Americans.

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Listen now. All that AI isn't going to power itself, you know? From marketplace, I'm

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Sabrie Beneshore in for David Brancaccio. The rise of artificial intelligence is fueling a

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boom in data centers. The consulting firm McKinsey expects the rate of

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