Harvard scholar: the data-center backlash is just getting started

The Washington Post Loves Data Centers a Lot More Than Disclosing Jeff Bezos’s Financial Interest in Promoting Them

The Washington Post’s opinion editors love data centers, the humongous and increasingly unpopular server warehouses that are the physical backbone of the internet and artificial intelligence. In unsigned editorials, podcasts, and guest op-ed columns, the Post’s take has been focused and forceful. America needs more data centers to boost the economy, compete with China, and [] The post The Washington Post Loves Data Centers a Lot More Than Disclosing Jeff Bezos’s Financial Interest in Promoting Them first appeared on Washingtonian.

The data center backlash

The data center backlash

Tech Change: A Faculty Survival Guide from the IT Side

Faculty are not resistant to technology — they’re overwhelmed by how quickly it arrives. Faculty today are navigating more digital transitions than ever before, including new learning platforms, AI policies, assessment tools, cloud systems, security requirements, and various communication channels. From where I sit on the IT side of campus, the changes never seem to stop coming. But here’s what I’ve realized after years of helping [] The post Tech Change: A Faculty Survival Guide from the IT Side appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching Learning.

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Curriculum Associates CEO Kelly Sia recently defended her company’s flagship i-Ready platform to Fordham readers. The program, used by millions of students, has come under fire from teachers, parents, and students as part of an ed-tech backlash sweeping the nation. To set the record straight, Sia stated that Curriculum Associates “welcome[s] honest scrutiny of our research.” She then pointed to a large correlational study out of Georgia State University that evaluated i-Ready use in one large Read More

We Mapped Rural Data Center Development – and Opposition. Here's What We Found.

Washington, D.C.'s metropolitan area has long hummed with data centers. The region, which encompasses much of Northern Virginia, has become known as Data Center Alley, home to more data centers than anywhere else in the world. But the data center boom, driven by the rise of AI and the race to build the infrastructure powering it, is changing the geography of these energy-intensive, warehouse-like facilities. Data centers have arrived in rural America...