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“It’s like the Gilded Age, part two,” Kerwin Olson, a leader of an anti-data center activist group, said. “Only bigger.”

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Global transaction values have risen around 40% to about $4.5 trillion this year, data compiled by Bloomberg show, the second highest on record.

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“Slop” was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

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“The operating reality has changed, and we are redeploying capital into higher-return growth opportunities,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said.

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