New software for biodiversity research enables comprehensive quantification of ecological stability

Intact ecosystems have the capacity for self-regulation, which keeps their complex structure of species—such as animals, ...
CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
Science Daily

Scientists use AI to crack the code of nature’s most complex patterns 1,000x faster

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...
Los Angeles Times

Should a town with an ‘inferiority complex’ welcome a giant data center?

Giant computer data centers that power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are popping up around California, as are fights with communities that don’t want to live near them. The contests ...
JD Supra

5 Key Takeaways | Salt Update: Navigating the Complex Landscape of Sales and Use Tax Sourcing

Sales and use tax sourcing is governed by key constitutional standards, notably the Commerce Clause, as clarified in cases like Complete Auto Transit v. Brady and South Dakota v. Wayfair. These ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
WGAL

Pennsylvania state representative to propose bills regulating AI data centers

SOMETHING WILLIAMS SAYS IT DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO. A STATE REPRESENTATIVE SAYS HE’S ABOUT TO INTRODUCE A PACKAGE OF BILLS AIMED AT REGULATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AI DATA CENTERS ACROSS ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid.

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...
MIT Technology Review

Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...
Seeking Alpha

CoreWeave data center complex delayed by rainstorms, design revisions - report

Rainstorms in Texas earlier this year delayed construction of a major AI data center complex that's key for CoreWeave (CRWV), because of which its completion date was pushed back several months, ...
Wired

You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. When I called him to talk more about AI and water, Masley emphasized that he’s ...
E&E

States push to end secrecy over data center water use

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...