Tag: data_centers
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Sierra Club Says Over 1 Million Comments Oppose Trump's Roadless Rule Repeal
Sierra Club says more than 1 million public comments oppose the Trump administration's plan to eliminate the Roadless Rule, which has protected nearly 59 million acres of national forests for 25 years.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Says Computing's Easy Gains Are Ending as Scaling Laws Stall
MIT Technology Review reports that decades of easy chip miniaturization have stalled, with major scaling laws slowing or ending, and that computing's true physical limits remain far off.
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NVTC Cyber Summit to Explore 'Cyber at the Speed of AI' on Oct 28
Northern Virginia Technology Council's 2026 Cyber Summit & Cyber50 Awards on Oct 28 will examine AI-driven risk and autonomous threats, alongside a fall slate of events on pitching, hiring and space security.
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Cornell Undergraduates Map PFAS Across More Than 300 Finger Lakes Waterways
The Chronicle also reports a $22.5 million NSF renewal for plant-human communication research, a Packard Fellowship for an applied physicist working on slidetronics, and a MacArthur Fellowship for a sociologist alumna studying climate change.
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Newsweek Reports Iranians' Deepening Economic Pain, Kansas Senate Race Tightening and Hyundai's $15.5bn India Bet
Iranian inflation eased slightly to 83.8 percent a year in September, while Democrat Adam Hamilton polls neck-and-neck with Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in a state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate in 94 years.
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US Nuclear Operators Pursue Reactor Uprates as AI Electricity Demand Surges
Constellation plans to add nearly a gigawatt across 11 reactors at six plants, while the Energy Department awarded Vistra a $4.2 billion loan for upgrades at three plants.
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California Grid Meets Highest Power Demand in Four Years Without Emergency Measures
California's grid handled its highest electricity use in four years on September 9, 2026, backed by 39,000 megawatts of new clean energy and 23,000 megawatts of battery storage since 2019.
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Sierra Club Warns Data Center Growth Threatens Climate, Health and Energy Bills
The group says the 12 largest off-grid data centers under construction will emit more climate pollution than all the electricity used to power Florida and Pennsylvania, and it is hosting an Oct. 21 online action hour.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Reports Brazil Runoff, Supreme Court Veterans Case and Andrew's Epstein-Linked Legal Challenge
Newsweek reports Brazil's presidential race heads to an October 25 runoff, the Supreme Court weighs a veterans benefits case, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor challenges Epstein-linked search warrants.
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Spanberger Unveils 2026 Virginia Energy Plan Backed by First-Ever System Modeling
Governor Abigail Spanberger released the 2026 Virginia Energy Plan, pairing over 3,000 public survey responses with energy-system modeling to chart multiple paths to a net-zero power sector by 2050.
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Media Monitor: Senate Democrats Split on GOP Data Center Bill as U.S. Forces Leave Iraq
USA TODAY reports four Senate Democrats broke with party leadership to advance a GOP data center bill, while U.S. forces ended a two-decade presence at Iraq's Erbil Air Base.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Questions "Morally Binding" White House AI Accord
Newsweek reports Trump and top tech executives signed a White House accord on super intelligence, while its commentary argues morality is a poor way to regulate frontier AI.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Says Migration Through Darién Gap Plunged After Maduro's Removal
Newsweek reports migrant traffic through Panama's Darién Gap fell sharply after Nicolás Maduro's ouster, and highlights Iran, AI politics and data center coverage.
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Media Monitor: Cornell Title IX Data, Data Center Backlash and a Retirement Wave
USA TODAY reports Cornell logged more than 1,200 sexual assault, dating violence and stalking cases from 2018 to 2024, with only seven ending in expulsion or dismissal.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Tracks AI Agent Liability, Data Center Backlash and Border Wall Deaths
MIT Technology Review reports on who should be liable when AI agents go rogue, its investigation into deaths along the virtual border wall, and a roundup of the day's technology stories.
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Media Monitor: PolitiFact Examines Data Center Secrecy and Paxton's Uvalde Remarks
PolitiFact reports on why cities sign nondisclosure agreements over AI data centers and revisits Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's 2022 comments about the Uvalde school shooting.
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Media Monitor: NPR Examines Data Center Backlash Reshaping U.S. Politics Ahead of Midterms
NPR reports that battles over massive data centers are creating new political fault lines across the U.S., with residents organizing against projects in Virginia, Alabama and Wisconsin.
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Media Monitor: Poynter Reports McClatchy Layoffs, White House Press Fight and Data Center Funding Idea
Poynter reports McClatchy cut 13 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader, a federal judge ordered the White House to readmit three banned outlets, and a proposal would have data centers fund local reporters.
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Media Monitor: PolitiFact fact-checks Trump's UN claims, China data center influence theory
PolitiFact is reporting that Trump and GOP claims blaming China for U.S. data center opposition are exaggerated, and that Trump misled on Iran war and AI in his UN speech.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports AI Dominates Climate Week Discussions as Emissions and Funding Debates Intensify
MIT Technology Review reports AI's climate impact dominated UN General Assembly and New York Climate Week discussions, with officials weighing AI's potential against rising data center emissions and shifting climate-tech investment.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Reports on Ossoff 2028 Talk, Diesel Prices, Data Center Backlash and Trump TV
Newsweek reports on Jon Ossoff's rising 2028 profile, record diesel prices pressing the Trump administration, a voter backlash against data centers, and a day watching Trump TV.
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Newsom Signs Nation's Strongest Data Center Laws, Shielding Ratepayers
Governor Gavin Newsom signed sweeping data center legislation giving communities more control over water, electricity and land use, with lawmakers and advocates praising new ratepayer and environmental protections.
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Virginia Governor Spanberger Unveils Data Center Accountability Framework, Signs Executive Order 22
Governor Abigail Spanberger unveiled Virginia's Data Center Accountability Framework and signed Executive Order 22, drawing praise from environmental leaders as the strongest data center action in state history.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Warns of AI Hype, Tracks Global AI Oversight Push and Data Center Rules
MIT Technology Review is reporting that AI hype is outpacing reality, while 22 nations seek a global AI oversight body and Texas and California move to rein in data centers.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Questions AI Industry Hype Over Hacking and Math Claims
MIT Technology Review is reporting that recent AI industry claims about hacking incidents and math breakthroughs drew heavy coverage but face expert pushback, with critics calling the hype a marketing narrative.
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Media Monitor: 60 Minutes Previews Season 59 Episode With Clancy Interview, Texas Data Centers and Shergar Mystery
CBS News' 60 Minutes newsletter details a Patrick Clancy interview, Texas anger over AI data centers, and the unsolved 1983 kidnapping of the racehorse Shergar.
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Spanberger Signs Executive Order 22, Unveils Nation's Toughest Data Center Accountability Framework
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signs Executive Order 22 to implement a sweeping data center accountability framework, banning NDAs, raising environmental standards, and creating a new AI Task Force.
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Spanberger Unveils Nation's Toughest Data Center Accountability Standards, Signs Executive Order 22
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger unveils a sweeping Data Center Accountability Framework and signs Executive Order 22, banning NDAs, tightening environmental rules, and creating a new AI Task Force.
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Media Monitor: Cornell Chronicle Highlights AI Water Use, Kefir Caution and Campus Features
The Cornell Chronicle reports on growing concerns over AI's environmental impact, kefir's suitability for some consumers, and new Cornell features on hockey traditions, painting and incarceration.
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Media Monitor: House Republicans Leave Early, Skirting Hegseth Impeachment Vote as Data Center Bill Advances
USA TODAY reports Speaker Mike Johnson canceled Thursday's House votes, sending lawmakers home until November and avoiding a pre-midterm vote on impeaching Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth.
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