Commentary: Arkansas needs balanced strategy to address educator concerns about AI
While AI can offer transformative support for students who need it, it also risks eroding the foundational skills we are trying to help them acquire
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Stateline: With electricity bills rising, some states consider new data center laws
As Americans grow increasingly frustrated over their electricity bills, states are trying to keep the nation’s growing number of data centers from causing higher energy costs for consumers
$6B data center planned in Little Rock
AVAIO is currently contracted with Entergy Arkansas for 150 MW of power, but the company anticipates power demand of up to 1 GW as the facility grows
Rick Shumate: Fear of Missing Out on data center boom leads Arkansas officials to ignore hard questions
FOMO has broken out across Arkansas, as elected officials, unelected economic developers, utility companies and their regulators fall all over themselves not to miss out on the AI-fueled data center boom, a competition characterized by hyperbole, secrecy and healthy doses of wishful thinking
Searching for reality in an unreal world
As the world becomes increasingly unreal thanks to artificial intelligence, we’ll all need to seek reality wherever we can find it – in nature, in face-to-face relationships, and in trustworthy sources of information like the local news outlet you are reading now
Stateline: States will keep pushing AI laws despite Trump’s efforts to stop them
State lawmakers of both parties said they plan to keep passing laws regulating artificial intelligence despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop them