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Polestar dealers in the United States are facing a painful reckoning. The federal government has denied an authorization that would have allowed the Swedish electric vehicle brand to sidestep a ban on Chinese technology components, effectively shutting down US sales next year and leaving dealers who invested in the brand with nowhere to turn.
Across the Atlantic, the European Union is quietly softening its environmental ambitions for datacenters. A proposed rating system that would have held operators to strict emissions standards is being revised after heavy lobbying from tech giants and datacenter companies, with clean energy certificates now looking like an easier path to compliance than actual reductions.
And on the lighter side of tech royalty, Jensen Huang's leather jacket is heading to auction. The Nvidia chief executive's signed jacket, worn at a Foxconn event in Taipei in two thousand twenty three, is listed at Sotheby's with an estimate of forty thousand to sixty thousand dollars. Authenticated signature included. Nvidia disrupting fine art markets, apparently, is next.
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