Hidden 3D atomic structure of relaxor ferroelectrics revealed for first time

Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar ...
MIT Technology Review

This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

Goodfire claims Silico is the first off-the-shelf tool of its kind that can help developers debug all stages of the ...
Wall Street Journal

Locals Are Using AI to Fight Data Centers Being Built in Their Backyards

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...
USA Today

ICE detains hundreds using leads from TSA records. What to know

The deportation of a Guatemalan mother and daughter who were detained before boarding a flight raises new questions about how the Trump administration is using government databases for immigration ...
Reuters

Google expands utility deals to curb data‑center power use during peak demand

NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during ...
E&E

Data centers’ share of US electricity seen doubling by 2030

The Electric Power Research Institute’s electricity-demand estimates are about 60 percent higher than the group anticipated two years ago. Data centers could double their current share of U.S. power ...
Reuters

Microsoft exploring using advanced power lines to make data centers more energy-efficient

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is exploring using superconducting power lines in its data centers, which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server ...
WHYY

How much water do data centers use? One in Delaware City could use up to 20 million gallons a year

File - In this Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, photo, a woman stands at her well at her property on the outskirts of The Dalles, Oregon. She said the water table that her well draws from dropped 15 feet in the ...
Houston Chronicle

How much water do AI data centers use? A new survey could help Texas regulators find out.

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...
Inside Higher Ed

Education Dept. Tells Universities Not to Use Student Voting Data

The Education Department sent a message to colleges and universities nationwide Thursday: Any that use data released this year by a massive student voting study risk being labeled violators of a ...
InfoQ

Java Explores Carrier Classes to Extend Data-Oriented Programming beyond Records

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