Celebrating Black History Month is harder this year, but not impossible. Here are some ways to help celebrate it from home. 1. Attend Online Events Museums around the U.S. are hosting virtual events for people to learn and educate themselves about Black history. Google Arts and Culture also have a wide variety of online experiences readers can discover through the app or website. 2. Support Black-Owned Businesses Black-owned businesses still face structural racism, which often affects the stability of the business and its employees. An easy way to help find black-owned companies is by searching for the hashtag #blackowned online. 3. Stream Art Created By Black Artists Netflixâs Black Lives Matter category features movies and TV shows including Ma Raineyâs Black Bottom . Spotifyâs Black History Is Now section features songs by black artists both old and new. 4. Learn About Noteworthy Black Figures And Their Contributions Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, amo
Compute North to expand colocation campus in Nebraska
19 February 2021 | Abigail Opiah Compute North is set to expand its TIER 0TM colocation and computing campus in Kearney, Nebraska.
The expansion will see an additional 70MW of infrastructure to its customers including Foundry Digital LLC, Bit Digital, Inc. (BTBT), and several other players in the bitcoin mining space.
As part of Compute North’s ongoing projects, the expansion will feature the installation of next-generation containers, including Compute North’s first GPU computing module.
“As a testament to Compute North’s significant growth, its expansion in Kearney represents the company’s next step in ‘Mining 2.0,’ that requires the ability to effectively manage mining and data centre operations, combined with market expertise to actively manage power costs,” said Dave Perrill, co-founder and CEO of Compute North.
BY Scott Miller | December 30, 2020
Communities in Scotts Bluff, Morrill and Kimball counties are kicking in funding for an effort intended to boost workforce housing in the region.
The Western Nebraska Rural Workforce Housing Grant Fund is a pool of loan funding intended to be leveraged with a state economic development grant being applied for in January that would match those state funds dollar for dollar. Panhandle Area Development District had previously applied for a state rural workforce housing grant in 2018, but was not successful at that time, and this year Twin Cities Development will oversee the grant application process.
Earlier this month, TCD Executive Director Rawnda Pierce explained to the Gering Council that the intent of the fund is to provide the financial backstop for expansion of affordable housing in and around the communities that have bought into the
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BY YCDC | December 22, 2020
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YORK– Great West Petfood Holding Inc. doing business as, York Cold Storage I, LLC is investing $5 million in the York facility to expand their facility and capacity. This project will create a minimum of 13 jobs. The expansion will allow York Cold Storage to provide the additional product to another Nebraska business, further strengthening Nebraska’s supply chain. York Cold Storage is a refrigerated warehouse that stores frozen foods, bulk packages of beef, pork, chicken for pet food use, separates cartilage from meat for pharmaceutical use, and sells ice to various packinghouses and slaughter facilities.
Thursday evening (December 17, 2020), York County Development Corporation’s Executive Director Lisa Hurley joined York Cold Storage I, LLC’s Plant Manager, Matt Spanjers in presenting an expansion project to the York