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Senators Question Meta’s Data Center Tax Strategy

14 October 2026 at 11:09
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, questioning the company’s $6.6 billion in tax breaks.

Β© Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times

Meta has claimed to the Internal Revenue Service that the data centers it is building across the country to power its new generative A.I. efforts are β€œexperimental.”

How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

30 September 2026 at 05:00
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

Β© Illustration by Joan Wong; Photographs by Jason Henry for The New York Times, Mike Stewart/Associated Press, Getty Images

Noise and Motion Monitors in Their Homes? These Tenants Say No.

8 September 2026 at 19:54
The public housing authority in Concord, N.H., installed monitoring devices in 300 homes. Tenants are now suing to remove the Minut sensors.

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Tenants in public housing in Concord, N.H., were troubled to learn the wide array of data that new monitors in their homes collected, including decibel levels, Bluetooth signals and motion.
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