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On a 2-acre property in Mississippi, 52-year-old Krystal Polk’s family lived off the land for generations, raising chickens and pigs, growing onions and herbs and trading their peaches for pears.

Just before Hillsboro’s 120-day moratorium on data centers went into effect, the Texas-based real estate investment trust Digital Realty submitted a land use application to build a data center just under 200 feet away from Liberty High School. (KATU)

It is impossible to perfectly predict how artificial intelligence will affect the U.S. labor market. Policymakers and researchers are grappling with important questions around this topic, including what new opportunities may exist and what livelihoods might be eroded by AI? How will those countervailing forces net out, and which workers might be left behind? Will…

Texas communities continue pushing back against data center growth in their backyards, while state lawmakers debate how to properly regulate the expanding industry.

In an aerial view, the Meta El Paso Data Center is seen on August 13, 2026 in El Paso, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/

Data centers have become the largest driver of surging electricity demand that is straining US power grids. But the AI data center boom has also accelerated investment in a technology that could provide a silver lining for everyone—solid-state power transformers that replace industrial-age technology with modern power electronics.

Data engineering teams routinely spend weeks standing up a single new data source: writing ETL, hand-writing quality checks, updating semantic models, and validating compliance. The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) on AWS is designed to significantly accelerate that timeline. It’s a reference architecture built on Amazon Bedrock and your AI coding tool of choice. Specialized…