Big data dilemma
WITH its potential to bring huge benefits to the state and businesses, big data has been attracting increasing international interest over the decades. Can Pakistan, the fifth most populous country…
Big data
If you are a city planner in charge of traffic management, there are two ways you can address traffic flows in your city. Generally, a centralised, top-down approach will be…
Big data helped Trump even after he scorned it
Donald Trump derided the use of data and technology tools for his presidential campaign - but those techniques might well have propelled him to victory.Trump's stealth digital campaign, thrown together…
Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators
Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly the same electricity as Boston. So power company officials were alarmed…
FX & Gold – weekly outlook May 14-18: poor data big cause of worry
Global economic data and uncertain political condition in Europe dominated the market. Poor economic data from all over the world is a big cause of worry as recessionary conditions are…
EU’s red tape cuts leave big businesses wanting more
Austrian manufacturer RHI Magnesita spends about 1 million euros of its roughly 400 million euros earnings a year ensuring it complies with EU rules on corporate sustainability. A first wave…
Power tariff cuts: bigger, durable reform needed
The reduction in the power tariff, especially for industrial consumers, is a welcome move. Its architects, including the caretakers’ team, must be credited for it. However, this is a small…
How big fossil-fuel-producing countries export emissions abroad
Black dust coats streets and collects on rooftops in the neighbourhood adjoining a sprawling cement factory in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Activists and local residents accuse the plant operated…
Missing the bigger picture
IN October, as cooler temperatures arrived and smog started to fill the skies across Punjab, the provincial government rolled out the Roadmap for Smog Mitigation in Punjab 2024-2025. However, this plan raises more…
Chile’s biggest steelworks sunk by cheap Chinese imports
It’s the end of an era: after 74 years the blast furnace at Chile’s biggest steelmaker will be turned off on Monday, snuffed out by competition from China with the…
