How a new mapping tool helps Florida planners protect wildlife corridors as the state grows

A new mapping tool allows local governments, conservation groups and landowners to understand how their land-use decisions ...
Military Times

Army debuts data operations center to serve as information hub

The Army Data Operations Center’s debut is part of an enormous push to further integrate data and machine learning into ...
Phys.org

Trade-offs between commercial and public satellite data in water mapping accuracy revealed

A new study finds that commercial satellite imagery data often outperforms public data sets when identifying surface water, but that public data sets may be better at detecting water hidden by forest ...
Austin American-Statesman

Data centers in Central Texas: Tracking 70+ centers planned or operating in Austin

Artificial intelligence is dominating Wall Street, foreign policy and commercial real estate across the country. Texas now has the fastest-growing data center market in the country, with developers ...
Digi Times

AI data centers redraw the power map: Driving 800V DC and solid-state transformers into the next battleground

As demand for computing power from AI large language models (LLMs) continues to surge, power density in data centers is rising in tandem, bringing the conversion losses of traditional power ...
Technical

Here’s exactly where Amazon is planning its new data centers in Louisiana

Northern Louisiana is turning into data center central. Across the state from Meta’s under-construction Hyperion megaproject, Amazon and STACK Infrastructure just announced a $12 billion investment in ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
CNET

Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...
AZ Central

We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...
The Conversation

Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge

Christopher Hernandez received funding from the National Science Foundation (grant number SPRF 1715009) for the lidar work in Puerto Bello Metzabok. Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid.

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...
MIT Technology Review

Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...