Forbes

AI Data Centers And The New Era Of Unprecedented Demand

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Minevich is a NY-based strategist focused on human centric AI. STONE RIDGE, VIRGINIA - JULY 17: In an aerial view, an Amazon ...
CNBC

AI data center boom ‘stress tests’ insurers as private capital floods in

Hyperscales are increasingly tapping private credit and debt markets to finance the build-out of AI data centers. The huge sums of money flowing into the sector pose both risks and rewards for ...
Wired

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk

Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the ...
NBC News

Indianapolis councilman says shots fired at his house and a 'no data centers' note left on his doorstep

An Indianapolis council member said more than a dozen bullets were fired at his house Monday morning and a handwritten note reading "No Data Centers" was left on his doorstep. Subscribe to read this ...
eLife

Fast-ripples are emergent properties of neuronal networks

This valuable study addressed a key question in epilepsy research: whether the recordings of very fast oscillations in the brain (>250Hz, fast ripples) reflect underlying pathology or might be a ...
The Washington Post

The anti-data center movement is growing — and becoming more unhinged

Investigators study the home of Indianapolis Councilor Ron Gibson, which was shot at on Monday. (Kelly Wilkinson/IndyStar/USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect) The mob-like movement against data ...
The Washington Post

Shots fired at home of Indiana politician, who found ‘No data centers’ note

An Indianapolis city council member said he awoke early Monday morning to the sound of gunshots as an attacker fired into his home and left a note at his doorstep that read “No data centers.” Ron ...
The New York Times

Shots Fired at Indianapolis Councilman’s Home, After Vote Backing Data Center

No one was injured, but the councilman, Ron Gibson, called it “deeply unsettling.” By Alice Callahan Bullets hit the home of an Indianapolis city councilman early Monday morning, leaving shattered ...
Sydney Morning Herald

For every $100 in data centres, $80 leaves Australia almost immediately

There’s a number the data centre industry doesn’t love talking about. For every $100 poured into a fully loaded hyperscale facility in Australia – the kind Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building to ...
Harvard Business Review

Data Privacy Is a Growth Strategy

For years companies have treated customer data privacy as a defensive necessity, something to manage quietly through legal reviews, compliance checklists, and dense privacy notices. The assumptions ...
EdTech

AI in Higher Education: Protecting Student Data Privacy

While artificial intelligence has long supported higher education research initiatives, it’s now expanding into areas that touch student data. Examples include face recognition in surveillance cameras ...