Rosemarie Ho

Writer at Freelance

previously: facts @ business insider. fiction/criticism @ a public space, the point, the drift + other places

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Articles

Massive subsidies, minimal jobs: The math behind America's data center boom

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Hannah Beckler |Rosemarie Ho |Ellen Thomas |Daniel Geiger

Columbus, Ohio, escaped the Rust Belt rut years ago. Regional economic development officials offered incentives that attracted warehouses, manufacturing plants, and healthcare startups, reviving the economy and generating jobs. By 2018, hundreds of these deals over the previous eight years had created some 150,000 jobs. Central Ohio now hopes to repeat that success. It's betting big on "Silicon Heartland," a high-tech innovation hub that proponents hope will be flush with high-paying jobs.
Big Tech promised jobs. Cities gave millions. Where are the workers?

1 week ago | aol.com | Hannah Beckler |Rosemarie Ho |Ellen Thomas |Daniel Geiger

Columbus, Ohio, escaped the Rust Belt rut years ago. Regional economic development officials offered incentives that attracted warehouses, manufacturing plants, and healthcare startups, reviving the economy and generating jobs. By 2018, hundreds of these deals over the previous eight years had created some 150,000 jobs. Central Ohio now hopes to repeat that success. It's betting big on "Silicon Heartland," a high-tech innovation hub that proponents hope will be flush with high-paying jobs.
Big Tech promised jobs. Cities gave millions. Where are the workers?

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Hannah Beckler |Rosemarie Ho |Ellen Thomas |Daniel Geiger

Columbus, Ohio, escaped the Rust Belt rut years ago. Regional economic development officials offered incentives that attracted warehouses, manufacturing plants, and healthcare startups, reviving the economy and generating jobs. By 2018, hundreds of these deals over the previous eight years had created some 150,000 jobs. Central Ohio now hopes to repeat that success. It's betting big on "Silicon Heartland," a high-tech innovation hub that proponents hope will be flush with high-paying jobs.
AI runs on dirty power and the public pays the price

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Hannah Beckler |Rosemarie Ho |Ellen Thomas |Henry Blodget

The data center boom is driving utilities to torpedo renewable energy goals and rely on fossil fuels, pushing data centers' expected air-pollution-related public health costs to between $5.7 billion and $9.2 billion annually, a Business Insider investigation found. As Big Tech bets on generative AI, electricity demand for data centers far outstrips what renewable power can currently provide.
AI runs on dirty power - and the public pays the price

1 week ago | aol.com | Hannah Beckler |Rosemarie Ho |Ellen Thomas

The data center boom is driving utilities to torpedo renewable energy goals and rely on fossil fuels, pushing data centers' expected air-pollution-related public health costs to between $5.7 billion and $9.2 billion annually, a Business Insider investigation found. As Big Tech bets on generative AI, electricity demand for data centers far outstrips what renewable power can currently provide.
Data centers' environmental impact is hard to quantify. Here's how we did it.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Jake Swearingen |Hannah Beckler |Rosemarie Ho |Narimes Parakul

Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars building data centers, racing to power an AI revolution they say will bring broad benefits and enormous profits. The actual price, though, has never been fully measured. So a team of Business Insider reporters and editors set out to find the true cost of the US data center boom — in water, power, pollution, and tax incentives.
How Business Insider investigated the true cost of data centers

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Hannah Beckler |Rosemarie Ho |Narimes Parakul |Dakin Campbell

Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars building data centers, racing to power an AI revolution they say will bring broad benefits and enormous profits. The actual price, though, has never been fully measured. So a team of Business Insider reporters and editors set out to find the true cost of the US data center boom — in water, power, pollution, and tax incentives.
Palantir: US-Behörde bestellt Millionen-Technologie, um Einwanderer zu tracken

2 months ago | businessinsider.de | Rosemarie Ho

Die für Einwanderung und Zölle zuständige US-Bundesbehörde ICE schließt einen Vertrag mit Palantir, um sein System zur Fallverwaltung zu erweitern. Die Vereinbarung umfasst eine Software namens ImmigrationOS zur Verfolgung von Visumsüberziehungen und Selbstabschiebungen. Laut ICE ist der Vertrag notwendig, um das Mandat von Präsident Trump zur Durchsetzung der Einwanderungsbestimmungen zu erfüllen.
US-Behörde bestellt bei Palantir neue Technologie im Wert von 30 Millionen Dollar, um Einwanderer zu tracken

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Rosemarie Ho
ICE just ordered $30 million worth of new technology from Palantir to track immigrants

2 months ago | businessinsider.com | Sophie Kleeman |Rosemarie Ho |Henry Blodget

Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters 2025-04-17T21:24:45Z Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . ICE is contracting with Palantir to expand its case management system. The deal includes software called ImmigrationOS to track visa overstays and self-deportation.