3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1679+ words) A few weeks back, Maine lawmakers made national headlines by passing a first-in-the-nation pause on development of large-scale data centers. With growing public backlash against the rapid construction of huge, energy- and water-intensive data centers across the U. S. , all eyes were…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (70+ words) Maine Public Panelists: Jack Shapiro, climate and clean energy director, Natural Resources Council of Maine Patrick Woodcock, president & CEO, Maine State Chamber of Commerce VIP callers: Peter Mc Guire, climate reporter, Maine Public Radio Tony Mc Donald, commercial developer; partner,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (800+ words) As the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence technology continues, new data centers are popping up in communities around the country. The explosive growth of resource-hungry AI data centers, the majority of which are powered by fossil fuels, impacts not only…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (428+ words) A senior member of Open AI's robotics team has resigned, citing concerns about how the company moved forward with a recently announced partnership with the U. S. Department of Defense. The agreement is part of a broader push by the U. S. government to…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (248+ words) The death of a possible genius was reported this week. Ai, a chimpanzee who was born in West Africa and came to the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan when she was a year old, has died of…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (340+ words) Psychologist Cami Winkelspecht decided to familiarize herself with artificial intelligence tools like Chat GPT and Gemini, after patients started asking her for advice about how they could use the technology responsibly. "So I have also then started to experiment with…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1348+ words) It's not your mother's podcast " or your father's, or anyone else's. The Washington Post's new offering, "Your Personal Podcast," uses artificial intelligence to customize podcasts for its users, blending the algorithm you might find in a news feed with the…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (477+ words) A massive data center campus is going up outside Reno, Nevada. And when I say massive, when it's finished, its footprint will be larger than the city next door. All that computer hardware is expected to consume a lot of…...

7+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (805+ words) The town of Houlton recently agreed to remove surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition technology and destroy data as part of a settlement with residents who planned to take the town to court. They argued that Maine law prohibits possession…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1241+ words) Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind. , so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone more than 450 acres in the Indianapolis suburb, and…...