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Builders by Chris Wink
Will data centers be useful infrastructure — or tomorrow’s stranded boxes?
AI’s engine rooms are spreading to rural counties. The question isn’t whether to build them, but how to make them serve communities and regions.
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Data Centers
PA approves air quality permit for massive Homer City gas plant to power data centers
The move accelerates a $10 billion redevelopment in Indiana County, as residents and environmentalists voice pollution, public health and grid strain concerns.
Nebraska can take lessons from Virginia’s data center boom to prep its power grids
A state at the beginning of the journey is racing to build out infrastructure. Data Center Alley offers lessons on what did and didn’t work.
Legence acquires Maryland firm Bowers — and its lucrative data center contracts — in $475M deal
The $4 billion Nasdaq-listed construction company will absorb Bowers’ $1.3 billion in business agreements.
Explained: This is how data centers can lead to higher electric bills
From surging utility demand to costly grid upgrades, several factors tie tech’s growing footprint to the steady rise in energy use across the US.
Profiles: ‘how i got here’
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NSF Engines
$15M project aims to turn Upstate New York into a US ‘battery capital’
The US depends on China for most of its batteries. With funding from the National Science Foundation, this initiative wants to change that.
For North Carolina, regenerative medicine is both a health and economic imperative
The hard-to-commercialize and life-saving tech garners federal and VC investment as a part of a National Science Foundation Engine in the state.
How scientists in the Southwest are tackling the growing water scarcity crisis
Las Vegas-based startup WAVR, a part of the local National Science Foundation Engines program, is developing tech that harvests water from the air.
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What high-performing entrepreneurial ecosystems have in common
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Power Moves
Smith Micro to cut 30% of workforce amid restructuring and leadership changes
Plus, the Pittsburgh Technology Council held its annual Tech 50 Awards and more power moves.
Philadelphia partners with FSH Tech to update autofill tech and build small business tax help
Plus, a new program to help nonprofits learn tech tools, Pennsylvania announces an AI partnership with Penn and more Philly power moves.
Small modular reactors to power Delaware? Nuclear task force begins talks on feasibility
Plus, Project Washington developers sign union deal, global ag sciences firm Chestnut Run is moving to Wilmington and more local moves.
DMV serial entrepreneur leaves retirement to start AI company DigitalNet.ai
Plus, cloud FinOps company Kion hires a new CEO and other Maryland power moves.