Special thanks to @floorarearatio.bsky.social, among many others who asked to remain behind the scenes, for helping us sort through city housing data.

It's a trend that is quietly changing the character of neighborhoods, block by block, as buildings that once housed a dozen or more New Yorkers become single-family dwellings.

The Rise of the Manhattan Mega-Mansion In the West Village and other historic neighborhoods, buyers are consolidating apartments and combining townhomes, a sign of New York’s allure to the ultra-rich.

Ultra-rich buyers are consolidating New York townhouse apartments into giant single-family homes. Some are buying two, even three adjacent townhomes to build a franken-house.

Step inside a Manhattan mega-mansion, the latest status symbol in this second Gilded Age:

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The Rise of the Manhattan Mega-Mansion In the West Village and other historic neighborhoods, buyers are consolidating apartments and combining townhomes, a sign of New York’s allure to the ultra-rich.

Behind the preserved historical facades, the ultra-rich are buying up adjacent townhomes in the West Village and Upper East Side, combining them into a megamansion. It's part of a broader trend of small multifamily buildings being turned into single-family homes. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NYC’s newest billionaire status symbol: a double-wide townhouse.

Ultra-wealthy buyers are combining 2–3 historic townhomes into mega-mansions designed to feel like suburban estates — in the middle of the Manhattan.

Here's the latest with @sooophie.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

A screenshot of 3 3D modeled townhomes side by side. They are all rendered using a grey material, but the two on the right have a brick texture.

A detailed 3D exploded isometric diagram of a multi-story mega-mansion, resulting from the combination of two townhouses at 105 and 1017 Bank Street. The graphic highlights several features, including an excavated subcellar containing a wine cellar, gym, sauna, and media room. Above the subcellar, the kitchen and family room occupy the garden level, with the main entrance and living/dining area on the parlor floor, above. A grand spiral staircase is shown connecting all levels, replacing the two original staircases. The upper floors include a primary suite with a 2,000-plus pound bathtub and multiple secondary bedrooms. The diagram is topped by a rooftop level added during construction that features a study and a bathroom.

Come for the story and data, pls stay for the many hours spent in Blender texturing façades + building that spiral central staircase – was it very crucial, probably not

The Rise of the Manhattan Mega-Mansion In the West Village and other historic neighborhoods, buyers are consolidating apartments and combining townhomes, a sign of New York’s allure to the ultra-rich.

We looked at where and how the ultra-rich are buying and combining two – sometimes three – adjacent townhomes to convert them into single-family housing (often featuring an elevator and a flashy central staircase.)
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Proud that our work on the Hidden Costs of AI received an honorable mention for the IRE Philip Meyer Award. This was a huge collaborative effort between Tech, Data and power reporters to uncover AI’s hidden impacts on communities worldwide. Congrats to all! ❤️‍🔥

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

This topic we covered here 🙏
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And here
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*deep heavy sigh*

“Thousands of newcomers with little to no computing capacity today are hoping to claim a piece of the AI infrastructure gold rush.”

AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers The growing field of data center developers are catering to the tech industry’s ravenous demand for computing power to build better and more widely adopted AI systems. New faces are behind the mega-ca...

🚨NEW: AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers🚨

We analyzed thousands of data center operators. We found that newcomers are driving the AI gold rush - and it could have global economic consequences.

🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

To read our full story that details why this is happening, how communities are responding and what tech companies are doing to address their water footprint, here's a gift link to the story (lifts paywall for a week): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

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Top Trump Crypto Buyers Vying for Dinner Seats Are Likely Foreign, Data Shows The majority of top holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad

When Trump announced a reception and dinner for the top holders of his meme coin, crypto traders began jockeying for an invite. It's virtually impossible to know who these people are so we dug into the data. Turns out: more than half of them are probably foreign.

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Top Trump Crypto Buyers Vying for Dinner Seats Are Likely Foreign, Data Shows The majority of top holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad

Our latest #crypto story:

How the #$TRUMP memecoin funnels mysterious foreign money to #POTUS and his family

w/@Anthony Cormier and @Leonardo Nicoletti

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Top Trump Crypto Buyers Vying for Dinner Seats Are Likely Foreign, Data Shows The majority of top holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad

(Bloomberg) - More than half of the top holders of President Donald Trump’s memecoin — who are jockeying for dinner with the president — have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting that many of the purchasers are based outside the US.

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Wow. All but 6 of the top 25 Trump memecoin holders who registered for his contest bought their tokens on foreign crypto exchanges.

This is the most corrupt grift in presidential history.

An article and chart showing that 76% of the value of Trump’s meme coin is coming from foreign investors funneling money to him.

Trump’s contest to see who can bribe him the most through his meme coin is being dominated by foreign investors.

There’s a reason why Trump fired the ethics watchdog overseeing the executive branch, and the team investigating crypto fraud.

These are bribes, and this is corruption.

this is modern journalism. @wired.com "built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains. The tool runs periodic scans, tracking whether sites remain accessible, how their servers respond, and if the domain names still resolve."

Trump’s Memecoin Exposes Trading Gaps in Crypto Crypto was supposed to “democratize” finance, but small buyers remain at a disadvantage when experienced traders cash in

🚨NEW: Trump coin was no fair play🚨

We analyzed 5 million+ transactions, and found most people made ZERO profits... except for 21 whales that got in before everyone, and walked away with millions of dollars. Our latest investigation with @MuyaoShen ⤵️⤵️

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🚨 WOW, @mikhailsirenko.bsky.social @trivikrama.bsky.social and I won the Michael Breheny Prize for cityaccessmap.com 🤯

We calculated accessibility for *any city in the world and revealed stark inequalities.
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Lookout for a V2 of the app later this year 🚨

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

Steep increase in data centers to run AI threatens already stressed US power grids, likely causing power distortions to nearby homes. It's probably only going to get worse as improvements to grids can't keep up. By @leonardonclt.bsky.social @naurtorious.bsky.social

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AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

🚨NEW INVESTIGATION🚨
 
@naurtorious.bsky.social Andre Tartar and I analyzed exclusive data from ~800K sensors and found a strong link between proximity to #AI #datacenters and higher levels of distorted power, which can damage home appliances and aging grids.

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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse

#news #worldnews

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

AI might threaten millions of jobs and make jobs that still exist much harder and undermine education and illegally scrape writing from authors and creators and worsen climate change and gobble up water supplies, sure, but at least it also might be fucking up the actual power supply to your house

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

AI data centers are multiplying across the United States and sucking up huge amounts of power. New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of USians. #opcanary

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

Real life is not like science fiction, where the power usage required for processing rarely, if ever, factors into the plot.

I still care very much about the ethics of AI usage but I really think its environmental and infrastructural impact desperately needs more exposure.

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

AI data centers are multiplying across the US and sucking up huge amounts of power. An exclusive analysis shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans