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01.11.26 - 22:24
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Pokemon Card Mania Sparks Bubble Fear: "Just Doing A Crazy Bull Run" (ZeroHedge)
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Pokemon Card Mania Sparks Bubble Fear: "Just Doing A Crazy Bull Run"
The hyperscaler and neocloud bubble has dominated the attention of traders and investors this fall as cracks emerge in the AI data center buildout craze. But a much smaller speculative bubble has emerged in Pokémon cards, echoing the Beanie Baby pump-and-dump craze of the late 1990s. A PSA 10 Aquapolis Crystal Lugia just sold for $360,000 again, tying the record from earlier this month; in August one sold for $148,511, per . New floor or the top?Follow us for more collectible news pic.twitter.com/BDysHzoZxu— Nerdcave'77 (@nerdcave77) November 1, 2026
"Facebook Marketplace is littered with people offloading under market. Sealed is going up 20-30% week over week of some generations. Card shows becoming much more frequent. Restocks happening consistently. Seems like market is just doing a crazy bull run, anyone worried about the drop off?" one Redditor recently wrote in the subreddit PokemonInvesting...
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01.11.26 - 18:12
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How a small Wisconsin city scuttled a secretive $1.6bn datacenter project (The Guardian)
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Residents of Menomonie mounted a successful protest against a huge campus proposed by Meta – and community resistance to the AI boom is growingIn the spring of 2025, Sydney Brennan was riding high. The 22-year-old was finishing college and was a newly elected councilwoman in Menomonie, a city of about 17,000 in the lush plains of north-western Wisconsin.Weeks into the new job, she was invited to a meeting with consultants pitching a $1.6bn AI hyperscale datacenter campus that an undisclosed big tech company wanted to build just outside of town. The project's numbers were eye-opening: a 320-acre site that would use an estimated 75,000 gallons of water per day, making it the most significant development in Menomonie's nearly 150-year history. Continue reading......
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