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Oracle's artificial intelligence infrastructure push just got a significant financial backstop. A one-gigawatt data center campus planned for Saline, Michigan has locked in sixteen billion dollars in funding. The facility, developed by Related Digital, will anchor Oracle's AI compute buildout, though local residents remain vocal about potential strain on the regional power grid and environmental concerns.
Shifting to defense, the Golden Dome initiative is beginning to take shape with real contract dollars. The Space Force awarded twelve companies, including Lockheed Martin and SpaceX, agreements worth up to three point two billion dollars to develop space-based missile interceptors. Prototype demonstrations are expected by twenty twenty-eight, marking a significant acceleration of the program's ambitions.
And on the diplomatic front, weekend ceasefire talks between Washington and Tehran collapsed before they could begin. Iran's foreign minister departed Pakistan ahead of scheduled negotiations, and President Trump subsequently directed envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner not to travel to Islamabad, citing, in his words, too much time wasted on traveling. The breakdown raises fresh uncertainty over the trajectory of U.S.-Iran nuclear diplomacy.
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