Innovative algorithm makes genomic surveillance faster and more affordable for global disease outbreaks

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

Data Scientist Ke Zhang’s Research Explores Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Marketing

A privacy-preserving marketing framework applies homomorphic encryption to perform machine learning on encrypted consumer data. By combining ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

We Energies seeks to loosen some financial guarantees for data centers

We Energies is asking state regulators to loosen some artificial intelligence data center companies’ financial guarantees under a recently approved electric rate. The Public Service Commission in ...
Ars Technica

“We pissed off a lot of people”: Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has ...
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Are we mining minerals the wrong way?

There's $67 billion in critical minerals in old electronics and mine waste. By some estimates, America has nearly all the rare earth elements it needs through e-waste recycling and mine tailings, ...
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
Mongabay

How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

A version of this story was originally published by the Pulitzer Center, which supported Elizabeth Claire Alberts as an Ocean Reporting Network fellow. We didn’t set out to investigate China’s ...
PBS

We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See

Our thermal drones exposed pollution from a massive AI data center powering the AI boom. We investigated one of the world’s largest AI data centers, using thermal drone footage to reveal the hidden ...
WYFF

GSP Airport opens new parking garage with hundreds of additional parking spaces

APPLIANCE IN AT A TIME. AS WE HEAD INTO ANOTHER BUSY TRAVEL SEASON, VISITORS AT GSP INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WILL NOTICE CHANGES WHEN THEY PARK TODAY. A BRAND NEW PARKING GARAGE WAS UNVEILED, INCREASING ...
Post and Courier

First of 3 new Breeze flights from GSP Airport takes off. 2 more are coming in July.

GREER — The first of three new flights that Breeze Airways has trumpeted direct from Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport to new destinations took flight this past weekend, with two more to ...
Seattle Times

Data centers make sense only if we do them right

With the news that Seattle was the proposed location for five large (“hyperscale”) data centers, we were presented with an urgent question: Under what conditions, if any, would this be an acceptable ...