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Digital Future – Build It the Right Way
by Chris Saxman Too often, conversations about data centers are presented as an either-or: tech companies versus local communities, or economic growth versus environmental protection. That is the wrong debate. The real challenge is whether communities, businesses, utilities, investors and public leaders can work together to support the infrastructure a growing digital economy requires while…
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Golf, Data Centers and the Water Crisis
From Rod D. Martin on X: US golf courses use 531 billion gallons of water per year. That’s down from 759 billion gallons per year in 2005 and is 0.5% of total annual water withdrawals in this country. And somehow, the country manages to not look like the Sahara Desert. Meanwhile, data centers – the…
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ICE Thwarted in Its Effort to Protect Us from Dangerous Criminal Immigrants
by Dick Hall-Sizemore It is so heartening to see ICE protecting the United States from the dangerous violent immigrants in our midst. One of the latest of these violent individuals apprehended and detained was Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja, a Catholic nun from Nigeria, as she was walking to Mass on Sunday in McAllen, Tex. According…
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Debunking Data Center Myths
by Jeff Reynolds You’ve heard the stories. Data centers are loud, water-guzzling monsters chewing up rural landscapes. They promise jobs but deliver none. They’ll suck the grid dry, jack up everyone’s electric bill, overload the power grid, and leave abandoned warehouses when the AI bubble bursts. Opponents paint them as the latest corporate scam, with…
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Spanberger Admin Proposes Extending Virginia’s Lowest-in-Nation English and Math State Standards for 2 More Years
After years of delays, the proposed additional delay sets up a likely strong push for another delay in 2 years by powerful lobbying groups for those who work in the K-12 system… at the expense of Virginia students and parents by Todd Truitt As a supporter of Governor Abigail Spanberger, I’ve been impressed by much…