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Big Tech’s fast-expanding plans for data centers are running into stiff community opposition
Tech companies and developers looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don’t want to live next to them, or even near them. Communities across the United States are reading about—and learning from—each other’s battles against data center proposals that are fast multiplying in number and size to meet steep demand as developers branch out in search of faster connections to power sources.
State Department bars five Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S.
A massive telecommunications threat was stopped right as world leaders gathered at UN headquarters in New York
While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S.
Nepal blocks Facebook, X, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government (Associated Press)
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Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 07/21/2025 - 14:21Funders commit $1 Billion toward developing AI tools for frontline workers
A coalition of funders, including the Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group, will spend $1 billion over 15 years to help develop artificial intelligence tools for public defenders, parole officers, social workers and others who help Americans in precarious situations.