• A Southwest Airlines flight narrowly avoided a collision with a private jet in Chicago on Tuesday.
• The private jet entered the runway "without authorization," the FAA said.
• The incident adds to the string of recent safety concerns in aviation.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a near-miss incident between a Southwest Airlines jet and a private jet at Chicago's Midway Airport on Tuesday.

The moment was captured on video, appearing to show the Southwest plane just feet from above the runway before aborting the landing as the smaller jet crosses ahead of it.

A Southwest spokesperson told Business Insider that the passenger airliner performed a "go-around" to avoid a collision, circling to attempt another landing.

"The crew followed safety procedures, and the flight landed without incident," the airline said. "Nothing is more important to Southwest than the Safety of our Customers and Employees."

Data from the flight-tracking website Flightradar24 shows the flight originated in Omaha, Nebraska, and safely landed in Chicago about 15 minutes after the go-around at 9:02 a.m. local time.

"Tower, Southwest 2504, how'd that happen?" the Southwest pilot asked air traffic controllers after the go-around, according to radio recordings reviewed by BI.

The FAA told BI that the private Bombardier plane "entered the runway without authorization" and is investigating the incident.

Another safety incident in the US

The near-miss is the latest in a string of recent safety-related events across North America. On Monday, a Delta plane had to return to Atlanta after takeoff due to a reported smoke in the cabin.

Before that, a Delta flight crash-landed in Toronto a week earlier and flipped upside down. In January, an American Airlines plane collided midair with an Army helicopter over Washington, DC, killing 67.

None of the accidents or incidents appear related at this time, though an uptick in near-misses is among the risks worrying aviation industry insiders — especially after the American midair collision.

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• A TD Cowen analyst said that Microsoft had canceled plans for new data center developments.
• The news suggested that the staggering forecasts for data center growth could be overblown.
• Experts say the industry's growth will still be enormous but is now undergoing a reality check.

Microsoft recently appeared to scale back its data center development pipeline, which would be an extraordinary step back after a period of furious growth by the tech giant. But did it really?

The concerns about whether air was coming out of a data center bubble were raised by a TD Cowen analyst, Michael Elias, in a report dated February 21. Elias wrote that Microsoft, one of the largest data center operators in the country, had recently torn up leases for "multiple +100 megawatt deals in multiple markets that were in early/mid-stages of negotiations."

Elias also said the company had let go of more than a gigawatt of preliminary data center commitments it had made and also five longer-term development deals in prime data center markets. The company's decision-making was "tied to Microsoft potentially being in an oversupply position."

Microsoft's pullback sent a shudder through the data center market, which has seen staggering forecasts for growth in the coming years.

For some, however, the news simply reflected a more modest revision of the sector's extraordinary recent projections for growth.

"I can't think of the big five that haven't done this every 12 or 18 months," said one data center development executive, referring to the industry's largest users: Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle. The executive did not want to be identified by name because major customers in the industry prize confidentiality.

"This is not new and definitely not the biggest one we've had in the last three years," the executive said, saying that Meta had canceled major data center commitments it had in recent years in order to reset its strategy, including its data center business's customer and technology focus.

After that reevaluation, Meta rebooted its torrid growth, including the recent announcement of a $10 billion data center campus in Louisiana.

A spokeswoman for Meta declined to comment.

Microsoft still has plans for robust growth

Dan Thompson, an analyst at S&P Global who covers the data center industry, said that the magnitude of the data center boom was bound to modulate because the projections included speculative projects and, potentially, the double counting of tenants who may have expressed interest in multiple projects and/or regions for the same requirement.

"Some of these announcements are not going to get built," Thompson said. "I don't see it as a reflection on the data center industry."

Thompson said that there was a need to differentiate between credible growth and the frothiest forecasts for the industry's expansion. He said that S&P plans to reorganize its data center projections this year into buckets that group projects based on their likelihood of coming to fruition.

"We are modifying our reports this year, for every market, basically draw the line in the sand and say, OK, this is the part where we think: that is real," Thompson said.

What is clear, nonetheless, is that a data center boom is afoot across the nation.

S&P Global projects that the industry will grow from about 35.4 gigawatts of capacity today to almost 82 gigawatts by the end of the decade, an 131% increase. There have been even more ambitious projections that more than 90 gigawatts of data centers could be online by 2029.

The development is being undertaken to commercialize and develop artificial intelligence and also cater to society's yawning digital footprint. Data centers provide the computing and storage that power the internet and a host of increasingly vital functions, such as autonomous vehicles, Zoom meetings, and cloud computing.

A spokeswoman for Microsoft suggested in a statement that the company had pumped the brakes on development, while also highlighting the enormous scale of its data center expansion.

"Thanks to the significant investments we have made up to this point, we are well positioned to meet our current and increasing customer demand," the spokeswoman stated. "Last year alone, we added more capacity than any prior year in history."

Microsoft "will continue to grow strongly in all regions," she said, and that the company's plans to "spend over $80B on infrastructure this FY remains on track as we continue to grow at a record pace to meet customer demand."

Elias's report didn't cite specific examples of Microsoft's retrenchment, except for the recent news of its decision to reevaluate a large data center campus it is building in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, outside of Milwaukee.

Reached by phone, Elias declined to comment further.

Sean Ryan, a spokesman for the Village of Mount Pleasant, said that Microsoft had "paused in some of its construction work in order to incorporate new data center designs" and that "Village officials have no reason to believe this will affect the overall scope or nature" of the project.

• A federal judge indefinitely blocked the Trump administration's attempt to freeze federal funding.
• The Trump administration's actions were "irrational" and "precipitated a nationwide crisis," a judge said.
• The funding freeze prompted lawsuits from nonprofits and state attorneys general.

A Washington, DC, federal judge on Tuesday sided with a band of nonprofit groups and issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's attempt to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants and loans.

In her written opinion indefinitely blocking the administration's move to freeze federal funding, US District Judge Loren AliKhan wrote that the freeze "was ill-conceived from the beginning."

"Defendants either wanted to pause up to $3 trillion in federal spending practically overnight, or they expected each federal agency to review every single one of its grants, loans, and funds for compliance in less than twenty-four hours. The breadth of that command is almost unfathomable," the judge wrote.

She said the Trump administration's actions were "irrational, imprudent, and precipitated a nationwide crisis."

The judge said that the groups that brought the lawsuit "have marshaled significant evidence indicating that the funding freeze would be economically catastrophic — and in some circumstances, fatal — to their members."

"The pause placed critical programs for children, the elderly, and everyone in between in serious jeopardy," AliKhan wrote. "Because the public's interest in not having trillions of dollars arbitrarily frozen cannot be overstated, Plaintiffs have more than met their burden here."

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

AliKhan and another federal judge in Rhode Island previously issued a temporary restraining order against the administration's federal funds freeze after a group of nonprofits and Democratic state attorneys general filed separate lawsuits last month, arguing that the freeze was unlawful.

US District Judge John McConnell Jr. of Rhode Island, who is overseeing the lawsuit brought by 22 states and the District of Columbia, found earlier this month that the Trump administration was violating his court order by continuing to freeze funding for federal programs.

McConnell had ordered the administration to immediately restore and resume the funding. The White House appealed that order to the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals but was denied.

The case in DC was brought by the advocacy groups the National Council of Nonprofits, American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance, and SAGE.

At a court hearing last week, Kevin Friedl, an attorney with Democracy Forward who is representing the nonprofits, said that AliKhan's temporary restraining order has "shown value" even though the administration's unfreezing of funds "in response to that order has not always been smooth."

Friedl said the temporary restraining order has had "a real effect" and helped his clients, but added that continued relief remained "necessary."

Department of Justice attorney Daniel Schwei argued that the plaintiffs' claims were moot since President Donald Trump's budget office had already rescinded the memo ordering the freeze on federal spending.

"Plaintiffs now agree that the funding that they would receive under their grant awards is available to them, and they say that there's still a need for continued preliminary relief from this court," Schwei said. "That is an inherently speculative proposition."

Schwei said that it was "speculative" to assume that the Office of Management and Budget "might reimplement some pause in the future."

"Certainly we don't think there's a need for emergency preliminary relief from this court to enjoin such hypothetical future pauses," Schwei said.

The Trump administration set off a wave of mass confusion after the Office of Management and Budget dropped a memo on January 27 ordering the temporary freezing of "all federal financial assistance" beginning 5 p.m. the following day, so that the spending could be reviewed.

"The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve," the acting OMB director, Matthew Vaeth, wrote in the memo.

OMB rescinded the memo on January 29.

• YouTube plans to change the way mid-roll ads appear in videos.
• Starting May 12, the company said it will automate ad placement to improve the viewer experience.
• The update could boost creator revenue by weaving ads into "natural break points."

YouTube says changing the way ads appear in videos could help creators earn more money.

In a recent blog post, YouTube announced plans to automate the placement of ads that appear in the middle of videos.

Starting on May 12, the platform said it will show more mid-roll ads at "natural break points," like pauses and transitions. It will also remove ads from "interruptive" places, like in the middle of a sentence or action sequence, that could cause viewers to close the video.

The company said the change is meant to improve viewers' experiences and potentially earn creators more money.

YouTube tested this ad change in July. It said channels that enabled both auto and manual mid-roll ads saw an average of over 5% increase in YouTube ad revenue compared to channels with only the manual ads.

YouTube plans to update older videos with manual mid-rolls to include "additional, automatic ad slots." Videos without ads and those that already have automatic ads enabled will not be impacted.

Creators can opt out of the update and continue placing their ads manually. However, the company said those who do may see a decrease in revenue.

YouTube creator Amanda Golka, who runs the commentary channel Swell Entertainment with 495,000 subscribers, said she wants to test the feature on her older videos before allowing it in her new content. She wants to make sure that the automation won't overload her videos with ads. Overall, she doesn't expect it to be a huge revenue boost for her.

"I will probably allow them to auto-place ads on old videos — but I'll continue to manually place ads on future videos," she said. "I limit to about five or six midroll ads on longer videos, and YouTube tends to place eight-plus on those."

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• A White House official told Business Insider Amy Gleason is the acting DOGE administrator.
• Donald Trump tapped Elon Musk to lead DOGE.
• White House officials have previously said Musk is not the DOGE administrator.

A White House official on Tuesday said that a former US Digital Services official is serving as the acting head of DOGE.

In a statement to Business Insider, a White House official said that Amy Gleason is the acting DOGE administrator, appearing to put to rest a question that has hung over the White House's DOGE office: Who is in charge?

President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day executive order created a DOGE administrator to lead the rebranded US Digital Service. Under penalty of perjury, a White House official recently said in a court filing that Elon Musk was not the administrator nor a DOGE employee. It remains unclear whether there is a DOGE administrator.

Earlier on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, refused to name the DOGE administrator during a back-and-forth with reporters. She also said Musk wasn't the administrator.

"No, Elon Musk is a special government employee," Leavitt said when pressed on the world's richest man's status.

"There are career officials at DOGE. There are political appointees at DOGE. I'm not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium," she said. "I'm happy to follow up and provide that to you. But we have been incredibly transparent about the way DOGE has been working."

Leavitt also said Trump had "asked Elon Musk to oversee DOGE."

Business Insider followed up with the White House and a DOGE spokesperson. They did not immediately respond to our questions.

The White House has said Musk is a special government employee, a category of federal worker created to bring officials with expertise into the civil service part time. Musk is also a senior advisor to the president.

Trump and Musk have blurred the extent of Musk's power. BI previously reported that Musk's job title was "unlisted."

Musk recently hosted a DOGE update with members of Congress on X, the social media platform he also owns. Trump has told reporters he asked Musk which type of people DOGE had hired. In an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, Musk wielded a chainsaw onstage. His talk was titled "DOGE update."

During the briefing, Leavitt told reporters that Musk would attend Trump's first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

"Elon will be in attendance tomorrow just to talk about DOGE's efforts and how all the Cabinet secretaries are identifying waste, fraud, and abuse at their respective agencies," Leavitt said.

It's not just journalists asking about the position. On Monday, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly asked a Justice Department attorney if there was a DOGE administrator.

"I don't know the answer to that," the counsel responded, according to Lawfare.

Trump's executive order dictates that the administrator answers to the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles. Twenty-one civil service employees who resigned en masse on Tuesday addressed their letter to Wiles.

In a footnote, they wrote that they addressed their letter to Wiles because "no one has been identified internally as the official Administrator or leader of the United States DOGE Service."

February 25, 2025: This story has been updated to include Gleason's name.

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