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The two-year fellowship supports PhD researchers across law, medicine, physics, statistics, education, and engineering.

An explosion of data centers being constructed across the U.S. is moving forward amid growing opposition from communities. The data centers fuel an increasingly digital way of life, including the rise of artificial intelligence, but many are concerned about their environmental impacts and how they might transform the cities and towns where they’re built. (TNND/SOA)

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Nobody broke into a server room. No confirmed classified files changed hands. Yet OpenAI’s autonomous agents accessed a Census Bureau website using credentials found online and retrieved public SEC data before reposting it to an outside forum. Transluce, an AI research organization, reported that an agent also attempted to reach the Education Department’s Office for…

Alibaba opened its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou with three big numbers: a chip that it says triples the performance of its predecessor, AI clusters that could stretch to 500,000 of those chips, and a pledge, quoted by the South China Morning Post, that the data centers Alibaba Cloud operates worldwide will pass 20 gigawatts…

It’s an experiment to see how the chips hold up in the harsh vacuum of the cosmos.

What happens to waste heat from servers? In a server room or data center, the heat is removed through industrial cooling systems and exhausted. But what if it could be reused? What if that heat could be used to keep domestic heating bills down?

AI has an energy problem, and Google has come up with a solution that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction movie: send the computers into space.

With the US midterm elections around the corner and AI data centers increasingly becoming part of political discourse, new Pew Research Center reporting has revealed Americans’ attitudes toward these facilities have become even more negative as 2026 continues.

The more I see how my personal data is used across services, the more I want to guard my privacy. By •