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THE $400 BILLION DATACENTER

THE $400 BILLION DATACENTER

What Big Tech is actually building, why it’s sitting idle, and what the numbers really mean PART III eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 3 Nov. 2025–There’s a datacenter outside Des Moines, Iowa, that cost $10 billion to build. It covers 2.1 million square feet – roughly 36 football fields. Inside are 50,000 GPU servers, each containing 8 NVIDIA…
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Suriname and the AI Revolution: A Choice Between Dependency and Development

Suriname and the AI Revolution: A Choice Between Dependency and Development

O P I N I O N Around the world, a new technological era is taking shape.  Artificial intelligence is transforming economies, public services, education, health systems and even how societies understand themselves.  Governments and corporations are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars each year into AI.  It is becoming the next global infrastructure layer — as…
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How FinTech Makes Money Smarter

The New Architecture of Credit Part II eyesonsuriname Amsterdam,  Oct 24th 2025– FinTech is more than a buzzword.  It’s a complete redesign of how money works — a shift from slow, opaque systems to digital engines powered by data and trust.  Behind every slick mobile app or instant loan approval lies an invisible architecture of algorithms,…
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Modern Government for Paramaribo?

Modern Government for Paramaribo?

Deploying AI for a Future-Proof and Efficient Workforce eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 9 Oct. 2025– The workplace, you know the place where you carry out your work, has undergone an enormous transformation in recent years and will change drastically again over the next fifteen years.  And changes keep coming. Fifteen years ago, for example, it was unthinkable that smartphones would be…
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Gulf Cooperation Council and Huawei Aim for AI Supremacy

Opportunities and Risks for Suriname. Independence 2.0 eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, Sept. 7th 2025– With the rise of The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain — has announced a $4.45 trillion investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital sovereignty a Brand New AI Superpower is Emerging. The goal is to position the Gulf states as another – third – global AI superpower, alongside Silicon Valley and China. Through this…
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Human Evolution

The Evolution of Technology

From Fire to Artificial Intelligence eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 23 July 2025 — The history of technology is essentially the history of human civilization itself. Every major leap forward in our development as a species is closely connected to technological breakthroughs that have fundamentally changed our way of living, working, and thinking. The Roots of Innovation The earliest…
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🚗 BYD Electric Cars and the U.S. Privacy Alarm: A High-Tech Trojan Horse?

eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, July 21st, 2025 – As Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD surges ahead globally—recently overtaking Tesla in sales—the U.S. government is sounding the alarm over what might be lurking beneath the hood: a national security threat wrapped in sleek automotive design. 🔍 The Surveillance Concern Modern EVs are no longer just modes of…
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When AI Overshadows the Media: Who Really Benefits?

When AI Overshadows the Media: Who Really Benefits?

Opinion By Anton JieSamFoek The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) marks a quiet earthquake in the media industry. Articles are written faster and cheaper than ever. Images appear on command. Voices echo out of nowhere. The technology is impressive — and dangerous in its confidence. AI sounds like it knows what it’s talking about. It uses language…
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Meta Superintelligence Labs

Re-organisation Meta

New Superintelligence Lab Created eyesonsuriname Amsterdam  July 1st – Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized the company’s artificial intelligence efforts under a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to a source on Monday.  The division will be headed by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of data labeling startup Scale AI. He will be the chief AI officer of the…
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Data Journalism Handbook flat

The Data Journalism Handbook

eyesonsuriname The Data Journalism Handbook Handbook Data Journalism  from  The center for investigative journalism Resources from Data Driven Journalism Data journalism at The Guardian Data Journalism Blog VVOJ MedialabSchool of Data, explaining everything that has to do with data Handy tools Import IO, scrape without programming Scraper Wiki, find scrapers and create your own Outwit…
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