The International Energy Agency estimates data centers consumed about 415 terawatt-hours of electricity globally in 2024, roughly 1.5% of global electricity use, and projects that figure will more tha…
A study on arXiv (2609.22694v1) reframes dementia-related crash severity prediction as a decision-aware triage problem, using 4,781 Texas crash records with structured fields and police narratives und…
Coverage Cat, a licensed insurance brokerage in the Y Combinator S22 batch, launched on Hacker News with an AI-guided intake flow paired with a licensed brokerage team for comparing home, umbrella, au…
Timnit Gebru, executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), and Emily M. Bender, a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington, argue that recent AI claims about hac…
Testimony presented to the Texas Senate Committee on Economic Development on September 22, 2026 argued that Texas policymakers should avoid inflexible mandates on workplace AI adoption and hold off on…
A proposed framework called Natural General Intelligence calls for a foundation model grounded in the state and dynamics of the planet itself, connecting the biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, land, ice, …
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has reversed course on the AI data center tax subsidies and deregulation he championed, now demanding an end to the giveaways and calling for regulation of projects he previ…
Kizer Holdings launched Kizer AI, opening nearly 500,000 acres of family-controlled land across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma for gigawatt-scale data centers. The platform is aimed at developers buil…
ERCOT's Batch Zero process has produced approximately 13.275 GW of conditional capacity disclosures, with over 5 GW earmarked specifically for new AI deployments, according to public company filings. …
SemiAnalysis estimates that only about 2.3 GW of planned US datacenter capacity is genuinely delayed by local moratoriums and New York's executive order, despite four states acting in under two months…
US data centers will require 15 billion additional cubic feet of natural gas per day by 2035, according to a BloombergNEF forecast reported by Bloomberg News on September 14 — more than double Bloombe…
Medicare's AI-driven prior authorization pilot, the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, launched in January in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington and wi…
Samsung Electronics and Verizon Communications completed an AI-powered Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) trial at a major international soccer fan event in Texas, Samsung announced Tuesday, …
Crusoe opened its second manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, adding 400,000 square feet and bringing the AI factory company's national manufacturing footprint to roughly 1 million square feet. …
Public backlash has disrupted approximately $228 billion in data center projects, with at least 75 projects worth $130 billion blocked or delayed in Q1 2026 alone, according to Crypto Briefing. Over 5…
A late August 2026 poll found that 47% of Trump voters oppose new data center construction in their areas, while only 35% favor it, and roughly 70% of local communities show bipartisan resistance. Tex…
Gamers Nexus, with Level1Techs and three independent security researchers, released a 135-minute investigation alleging LG OLED TVs, including the flagship G5, scan home networks for unrelated devices…
A Washington Post analysis of thousands of social media posts and newsletters found that most Republican politicians now speak negatively about data centers, a shift that began around February 2026, a…
South Korea and the United States have agreed on a planned investment of around $22.3 billion to build a 6.3-gigawatt gas plant in Encinal, Texas, to meet rising power demand for AI data centres, Kore…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that the state will revoke all law enforcement license-plate-recognition camera permits on state highways, with all such cameras removed by the end of Septem…