Hot fact: Global data center power use has been increasing at an alarming rate.

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Wintertime Antarctic sea ice has been increasing at a small rate and with substantial natural year-to-year variability.

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The increased price of fixed-rate home loans since then has been driven by the increasing cost of borrowing the funds on the financial markets.

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But that would be to forget that the national debt has been increasing at an uncomfortably fast rate since the great crash of 2008.

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Along with their skyrocketing popularity, the number of children presenting to emergency departments in the U.S with injuries from these amusements has also been increasing at an alarming rate: a 15 fold increase in reported injuries from 1995-2010, according to a study published today in the Journal, Pediatrics.

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The result has been an ever-increasing corporate savings rate and a greater focus on increasing margins through cost-cutting in the absence of meaningful prospects of growth in final demand.

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Although their use by the courts has been increasing, Scotland still has a relatively high rate of imprisonment, at 141 per 100, 000 population, compared with 66 in Norway and 70 in Denmark.

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While the ECB has since been consistently raising interest rates, the U.S. Federal Reserve has been on a steady road of inaction for the last year after undertaking its own rate-increasing campaign in 2004.

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