No maps, no insurance: Michigan floods expose lack of information, preparation in many rural areas

Many homeowners hit by devastating Michigan floods had no insurance and no idea they were at risk — underscoring ...
IEEE

Uncertainty-Aware Flood Inundation Mapping With a Bayesian Deep Learning Framework Using SAR Imagery

Abstract: Climate change-induced extreme rainfall events are driving a rise in flood frequency, posing significant challenges that need to be addressed by decision-makers. To aid in this challenge, ...
Columbus Dispatch

OpenAI eyes potential $500 billion data center on federal land in Ohio, per report

(Reuters) - OpenAI is in talks to lease a proposed 10-gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio, in a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia, The Information reported on ...
Reuters

Microsoft limits employee use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 over data retention concerns, The Verge reports

June 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is limiting employees' use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 because of the AI startup's new data retention requirements, The Verge reported on ...
Newsweek

Erin Brockovich Adds Thousands of New Data Center Concerns to Map

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has added thousands of community ...
Source New Mexico

Lincoln County, New Mexico, wants to turn flood-prone properties into public land

Lindsay Sexton and her husband, Corey, spent years planning their move to Ruidoso, New Mexico. The tiny mountain town had long been a weekend refuge for the couple and their young son, its pine ...
WOOD-TV

‘We don’t want this’: Protesters flood Lowell Township data center meeting

LOWELL TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — People packed into a barn in Lowell Township Monday evening for a planning commission meeting about a proposed Microsoft data center in the area. The meeting was ...
Gizmodo

A Farmer Donated Land for a Public Park and the City Sold It to a Data Center Developer for $10 Million

The City of Taylor, Texas, is facing public outcry after residents found out a data center's being constructed on land donated as a public space. Reading time 4 minutes In Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 ...
Houston Chronicle

Land once intended as Texas parkland now slated for $1B data center

What was once gifted to this Central Texas city as parkland nearly three decades ago is now headed for a very different future: a sprawling, billion-dollar data center. When a family in Taylor, Texas, ...
AOL

30 years ago, a Texas family donated land for a public park. Now it will be home to a data center bigger than two football fields

In 2026, when someone paves paradise, they don't put up a parking lot, they put up a data center. That's what's happening in one Texas town, where a piece of farmland donated to the county — with the ...
Yahoo

Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city g...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: City of Taylor, ...
The Conversation

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole

Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers ...