Alex Brown

1 week ago | marylandmatters.org | Alex Brown |Steve Crane

This is the second of two States Newsroom stories examining the implications of the growing need for electricity largely from artificial intelligence and data centers. Read the first here. For the first time in decades, America needs to produce more electricity. In many places, a sharp uptick in power demand has been driven by data centers, the industrial buildings that house huge banks of computer servers and support our increasingly digital society.

1 week ago | climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Alex Brown

https://stateline.org/2025/04/10/lawmakers-fear-ai-data-centers-will-drive-up-residents-power-bills/For the first time in decades, America needs to produce more electricity. In many places, a sharp uptick in power demand has been driven by data centers, the industrial buildings that house huge banks of computer servers and support our increasingly digital society. State lawmakers have long sought to attract such operations with generous tax breaks and incentives.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Alex Brown

For the first time in decades, America needs to produce more electricity. In many places, a sharp uptick in power demand has been driven by data centers, the industrial buildings that house huge banks of computer servers and support our increasingly digital society. State lawmakers have long sought to attract such operations with generous tax breaks and incentives.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Alex Brown

20 hours agoOpenAI announced on Thursday that it’s starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their previous conversations. The company says the feature, which appears in ChatGPT’s settings as “reference saved memories,” …

2 weeks ago | homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Alex Brown

CLIMATE CHALLENGESTrump Aims to Shut Down State Climate PoliciesPublished 11 April 2025President Donald Trump has launched an all-out legal attack on states’ authority to set climate change policy. Climate-focused state leaders say his administration has no legal basis to unravel their efforts. President Donald Trump has launched an all-out legal attack on states’ authority to set climate change policy.