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The Environmental Protection Network models roughly 600,000 asthma symptom cases and $11.7B-$20.9B in annual public health costs. The authors say these are baseline-growth figures excluding at least 30 federal regulatory rollbacks since January 2025, 17 of which directly address AI or data centers. Dr. Dan Costa, former director of EPA's Air, Climate and Energy Research Program, made the exclusion explicit.
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A group of former officials briefed press and published analysis arguing the current administration is weakening environmental regulation specifically to accelerate AI data center construction, with health costs falling on nearby residents, reported September 12. Compute sitin...
Tom's Hardware reported on August 26 that the US government is moving to remove requirements for public input on air pollution permits, which would let data center operators obtain them without publicizing them. It reached 75 points on HN within 90 minutes. I could not get pas...
After the first version drew "Minecraft is in the training data" pushback, the author had the same local Qwen3.8-27B Q4 on a single 4090 add an MLRS system, a rideable skateboard with tricks, an FPV drone, and an in-game computer running a playable game plus an SVG test, coded...
First rigorous statistical comparison of AIFS against IFS on operational ensemble data (arXiv). The energy number is the headline. AI forecasting is now operationally competitive, not just a research curiosity, and the cost structure is the reason it'll win deployment.
The Verge reported SoftBank disclosed the donation in response to a June letter from Sens. Warren and Blumenthal and Rep. Stansbury raising bribery concerns. Two months after the gift, SB Energy announced a public-private partnership at the DOE's Portsmouth, Ohio site, the for...
Reporting says OpenAI is designing an inference-specific chip for higher performance and better energy efficiency across its data centers. It extends the 2026 pattern of frontier labs vertically integrating silicon to control cost and supply. Inference is where the recurring c...
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