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I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Google plans to build a data center in Arkansas worth $4 billion that will create hundreds of operation jobs and thousands of construction jobs in the region. The new facility will be Google's

first in the state and will be powered by Entergy, Arkansas. The tech giant also

announced a $25 million energy impact fund to support energy initiatives in the region and

workforce development. We exclusively report that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and some senior

Trump administration officials are frustrated by delays on a multi-billion dollar deal

to send Nvidia chips to the United Arab Emirates. A deal was signed nearly five months ago.

People familiar with the matter, say Huang and White House AIsar, David Sags, hope to see the deal

advance quickly. They see agreements like this one as key to the U.S. staying ahead of China

in the AI race. But some sources say Commerce Secretary Howard Lettnick has slowed down the deal

by pressing the UAE to finalize their U.S. investments before chip delivery. A senior NVIDA

executives said the company isn't concerned with how the deal has been handled,

a spokeswoman for SACS declined to comment, and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't respond

to a request for comment. And Japanese Brewer Asahi Group said it doesn't know when its supply

chain will be restored after a cyber attack four days ago. The company set production systems at its

factories were not affected by the attack, but production was suspended at many Asahi factories in Japan

because of its inability to ship goods. The company isn't taking new orders and shipments to customers

have been delayed. It's also delayed the launching of some new products.

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