Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production
8% rate hike for utility customers —millions in tax incentives for data center companies to bring tax revenue and jobs... -...resulting in Maricopa having the 2nd largest concentration of data cente...
A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries
https://www.bbc.com/... Denny / @denny@boing.world : “A group of young men walked in, some wearing cowboy boots. They didn't look like outdoor types though. I got talking to one of them. He introdu...
Researchers: GPT-4 generating a 100-word email uses 1,468ml of water at its Washington data center, 925ml in Arizona, 464ml in Illinois, and 235ml in Texas
AI bots generate a lot of heat, and keeping their computer servers running exacts a toll. — Roughly a quarter of Americans … Forums: Hacker News Forums: Hacker News : A bottle of water per email: th...
Q&A with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the state's efforts to curb AI-manufactured deceptions ahead of the upcoming 2024 US elections
NPR's A Martinez talks with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the use of artificial intelligence to curb AI-manufactured threats to the integrity of the 2024 vote.
Sources: most of the ~12K workers at TSMC's Arizona fab are non-union contractors; workers detail wage theft, accidents of loads dropped from cranes, and more
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Trellix report: phishing emails targeting county election workers surged in battleground states Arizona and Pennsylvania ahead of their 2022 primary elections
Research conducted by cybersecurity firm Trellix found that county election workers in Arizona and Pennsylvania saw an increase … Source: Trellix .
Whistleblowers: Arizona's inmate management software has been unable to interpret sentencing laws since 2019, leaving hundreds eligible for release incarcerated
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An analysis of publicly available web records shows SolarWinds hackers accessed the networks at Cox Communications and the local government in Pima County, AZ
LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona …
Profile of eBird, a database created in 2002 that is now the global go-to platform for anyone logging bird sightings, with over 120M observations per year
In July 1992, two Danish birders visiting Patagonia, Arizona reported the first-ever, mega-rare cinnamon hummingbird in the United States. Tweets: @jdflynn , @outsidemagazine , @outsidemagazine , @out...
NTSB: the Uber self-driving test car that killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona last year wasn't programmed to recognize and react to jaywalkers
- U.S. safety board releases documents on fatal 2018 accident — Pedestrian hit, killed by experimental self-driving Uber car