Once hailed as a breakthrough in "green" energy, California's $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar plant is closing down after just 12 years.

Built in 2014, the project failed to deliver reliable power and became notorious for technical problems and environmental damage—including at least 6,000 bird deaths each year.

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📉 🤖 OpenAI is 'falling apart in real time' — and the worst is yet to come

Veteran investors George Noble and Michael Burry warn on X that all the signs of an OpenAI implosion are already visible — and the trend is only gaining speed.

What do they mean?

😵 Struggling AI chatbot

♦️ Noble says OpenAI declared “Code Red” in December as Google’s Gemini surged ahead

♦️ ChatGPT traffic fell in November — the second month-over-month drop of 2025 — while Gemini jumped to 650 million users

♦️ Reports say OpenAI’s major 2025 training runs failed to outperform earlier models

♦️ GPT-5 flopped. Users demanded GPT-4o back — and OpenAI restored it within 24 hours

♦️ “The company that was supposed to build AGI can’t even keep its chatbot competitive,” the Wall Street veteran says

🤑 It’s all about money

🔴 OpenAI reportedly lost $12 billion in a single quarter

🔴 Deutsche Bank projects $143 billion in cumulative losses before profitability

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