When state inspectors visited a dusty construction site amid the farmland of southern New Jersey in late July, it was impossible to miss the 62 tractor-trailer-size generators powering one of the largest planned data centers on the Eastern Seaboard.
None of the 2,000-kilowatt natural-gas-powered generators had the required permits to be installed or to operate at the site. On Tuesday, New Jersey fined the data center’s operator, DataOne, $1.07 million for violating the state’s Air Pollution Control Act. The fine is the largest ever issued to the operator of a data center in New Jersey, state officials said.
Hyperscale data centers, like the one in Vineland, are built to serve the needs of global technology companies. These data centers are racing to find power faster than utility companies can build grid capacity. As a result, some data center developers are installing off-grid power sources, drawing more backlash from the public.
“This is not a free ride for anyone,” Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey said at a Climate Week discussion hosted by Heatmap News in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday. “If they want to engage in building this out, it has to be a benefit to our communities in New Jersey.”
The data center campus in Vineland, slated for completion at the end of the year, will be a 2.6 million-square-foot complex requiring 350 megawatts of power, enough to power a medium-size city. Some of the complex is already in use, and it has been a magnet for complaints, beginning with the zoning process.
A group of homeowners has filed a federal lawsuit against DataOne citing persistent noise from the site. The Cumberland County Health Department has issued violation orders to DataOne for excessive noise.
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Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes has been approved for placement in a community correction center, or halfway house, and is scheduled to be placed there next year, according to an update from the Department of Justice’s Victim Notification System, ABC News has learned.
Holmes is scheduled to be placed in the Austin Transitional Center in Del Valle, Texas, on Aug. 23, 2027, according to the notification.
When reached for comment on Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement that it “does not discuss the conditions of confinement for any individual, including release plans.”
“Additionally, per BOP policy, specific designation information cannot be released until after an individual arrives at their designated institution,” the statement continued.
BOP said several factors go into assigning individuals to facilities, including “the level of security and supervision required, medical or programmatic needs, separation or security considerations necessary for the individual’s safety, and other relevant factors, such as proximity to the individual’s release residence.”
Holmes was originally sentenced in 2022 to 11 years and 3 months in prison for defrauding investors with false claims about her company’s blood-testing technology.
Her sentence has since been reduced to 10 years and 3 months, and she is now scheduled to be released on Feb. 22, 2030. According to the Victim Notification System, upon her release, Holmes will reside in Austin, Texas, and be supervised by the United States Probation Office there.
The new release date was the result of a retroactive change to federal sentencing guidelines and earned time through the First Step Act.
“To be clear, this sentence reduction does not diminish the enormity of Holmes’s crimes, nor does it ignore the significant negative impact her conduct has had on the community,” U.S. District Judge Edward Davila wrote in a March order granting a motion to reduce her sentence. “The hundreds of millions of dollars in losses caused by Holmes’s fraud speak for themselves. And though unquantifiable, the echoes of the immense reputational damage that the innovative industry in Silicon Valley suffered as a consequence of Holmes’s deception still reverberate to this day. Holmes’s revised sentence continues to reflect a just punishment for her serious offense and serves as a reminder that the scales of justice will balance.”
Holmes was found guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud while at the helm of Theranos. She reported to prison in May 2023.
Last year, a U.S. appeals court upheld the fraud convictions and $452 million restitution order for Holmes and her second-in-command, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani.
The two had argued the court committed several legal errors and violated their constitutional rights during their separate trials. The three-judge panel for the appeals court rejected their claims, finding that any errors were harmless or that their arguments failed to show any violation.
Holmes is the subject of a forthcoming documentary by filmmaker Nathan Fielder, “You Can See Everything.” In a new trailer for the film released Wednesday, Holmes maintained that she “did not” do anything wrong.
She participated in the documentary in 2023, before reporting to prison.

Bob Chapek, fired as Disney CEO in 2022 after less than three years, lays the blame for his ouster squarely on Bob Iger in an upcoming memoir, according to the New York Times, which obtained a copy.
Behind the Castle Walls: My Thirty Years at the Happiest Place on Earth comes out Sept. 29 from Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.
“My abrupt dismissal hurt my reputation, leaving those close to me, outsiders and some within the kingdom trying to figure out what I did wrong,” Chapek writes. “The answer, again, is nothing.” Instead, he claims that Iger, who had handpicked him for the job, relentlessly and intentionally sabotaged him.
Chapek’s belief on that front is no secret but he lays out his thoughts and defends his tenure publicly at length for the first time in the book. He calls himself a disrupter and writes, “I didn’t get a chance to finish what I started.”
Iger resigned abruptly as Disney CEO in February of 2020 after an epic run but remained as executive chairman for two years, retaining control over creative endeavors at the company and reporting directly to the board of directors. Chapek reported to both the board, and to Iger. The two clashed. Chapek suggests that Iger believed he could reclaim the job whenever he wanted, the NYT says.
Describing Iger’s exit from Disney, Chapek wrote, “I have been told by several high-ranking people both in government and private business that in their opinions, the real reason he left the company so abruptly was his anticipation of the arrival of Covid.”
Disney declined to comment.
The company has denied the pandemic had anything to do with Iger’s exit. Iger has said he wanted to wind down after a successful run. He felt at the time that Chapek was the right person for the job.
“I had been CEO for about 15 years. I started the company in 1974 at ABC. I had been around a long time. There were plenty of things in the world that I was interested in that I either wanted to do or wanted to learn more about. I had not really had a day off in I don’t even remember,” Iger told a NYT DealBook conference in 2023 about his departure. He said he was “disappointed in what I was seeing, both during the transition period when I was still there and while I was out. But I really worked hard at distancing myself from it because one, I couldn’t do anything about. It in a way, it wasn’t my business at all, really. It was his business to run.”
Soon after he started as CEO, Chapek was being pilloried on several fronts including management decisions that vexed key executives, and a public fight with star Scarlett Johansson that alienated talent. The company’s response to legislation (dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill) in Florida angered both Disney employees and Gov. Ron DeSantis. His ouster came shortly after Disney reported a greater than expected $1.5 billion streaming loss for its latest quarter.
Chapek’s apparent rubber stamp by the Disney board, followed by his rocky tenure, was used as ammunition by activist investor Nelson Peltz in a bruising proxy fight with the Mouse House.
Iger returned as chief executive after Chapek was fired and remained in the job through March of this year. Josh D’Amaro, head of Disney’s giant theme parks and experiences business, was named CEO after a considerably more robust executive search process.
Chapek, a 30-year Disney veteran, had also been running parks and experiences when he was anointed chief. He had worked with D’Amaro and says he was instrumental in the current CEO’s ascent. “I consistently suggested the idea of promoting him,” Chapek wrote. “He had been a relative unknown in the corporate hierarchy before I singled him out.”

A few weeks ago, Bentley gave Ars a ride in a new camouflaged electric vehicle. Named after a Spanish rock formation, the Torcal is the brand’s first battery EV, and today the production car had its formal unveiling. That camo was effective: The real car is less bulbous and more blocky than its disguise would suggest. And it’s fair to say it brings some of the ideas of the EXP 15 concept to the road—even if that didn’t include that show car’s elegant, stretched proportions. It’s smaller than the Bentayga, and it should slot beneath that model in pricing (or the PHEV version of it, at least), though Bentley has yet to reveal exactly how much US buyers can expect to pay.
Underneath the bodywork are some relatively familiar underpinnings; Bentley shares technology with Porsche as both are part of the greater Volkswagen Group empire. The power output might not be as prodigious as the electric Porsche Cayenne but should be sufficient nonetheless. The standard car will offer peak outputs of 810 hp (604 kW) and 880 lb-ft (1,194 Nm), enough for a 3.3-second 0–60 mph time (0–100 km/h takes 3.4 seconds).
The more powerful Torcal S boasts 875 hp (653 kW) and 995 lb-ft (1,350 Nm) at its most potent; this is capable of 60 mph from a standing start in a mere 2.8 seconds (2.9 to 100 km/h) and an increased top speed of 162 mph (260 km/h), up from 155 mph (250 km/h) for the standard version, either of which are academic outside certain stretches of German highway.
Although it’s a much heavier car, the Torcal’s suspension and drive modes have been tuned to be familiar to existing customers, including things like pedal calibrations and steering response rates. And the clever active ride suspension means the Torcal isn’t just a one-trick wonder. “[In] a steady state environment… you’ve got the ride comfort and compliance from a Flying Spur, but in a dynamic environment, we’ve got a vehicle that’s as dynamic and capable as a GT,” said Martin Page, product line director for the Torcal.
From the back seat, it was indeed a comfortable experience, with the car leaning into corners rather than adopting more of a “skyhook” philosophy, like that other famous ultra luxury British automaker.
And as we learned during our ride, it sounds like a 6.75 L V8 on the move, at least unless you turn that setting off.
We can also see the full interior finally—during our ride, a few design elements were visible but were off-limits for discussion until today. Among the various materials that Bentley can use to trim the interior are a new merino wool fabric and a wood finish that’s made from up to 1,000 walnut offcuts glued together, then sliced up to use as a veneer. There’s no passenger infotainment screen, but there also aren’t any of the traditional metal “organ stoppers” that open or close their air vents. Instead, regrettably, the vents are aimed using the curved central touchscreen.
An official US EPA range estimate should be forthcoming closer to the time the Torcal goes on sale in the US early next year, but expect at least 300 miles. For now, Bentley says it’s rated at 375 miles (600 km) under the WLTP test. The 113 kWh (net) battery pack runs at 800 V and will DC fast charge at up to 400 kW, which should take just under 20 minutes to charge from 10–80 percent, Bentley says.

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