Millions for pro–data center ads in US midterm states; FTC sues Amazon over ad charges; SHEIN begins trading — plus 7 more | BPJ News (Morning)
Ads, regulation, and energy costs are moving at once—quietly reshaping promo budgets, export packaging design, and how factories stall when systems fail.
In the US, the fight over data center construction is starting to consume election ad inventory. Meanwhile, lawsuits over ad transparency, rising crude oil, and a major email outage are each hitting print companies’ quoting, delivery schedules, and promotional operations from different angles.
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The politics of whether to build data centers is moving to the front of state-level political advertising. A lawsuit over how e-commerce ads are charged could ripple into advertisers’ cost expectations and how they allocate promotional spend. Higher crude prices and a cloud email outage are unrelated triggers—but together they exposed both materials inflation risk and weak points in order-to-cash infrastructure.…
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