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Author of "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge." Reporter for SciAm, NatGeo, etc. I'm no longer here. I'm there: @ericagies.bsky.social
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Could the next AI data center be attached to your house?

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By Vanessa Ramirez, Eric Sullivan Verified, Erica Gies Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Smart-panel start-up Span wants to turn spare household electricity into AI computing power. How far it can scale and what effect that would have on the residential grid remain unsettled A unit about the size of an air conditioner, mounted in the side yard, could soon be humming away on artificial intelligence tasks, drawing power from your home's energy supply and earning you discounted electricity and Internet in exchange.
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How ‘forest bathing’ keeps lungs healthy

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By Erica Gies Verified
| Nature Verified
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Italian scientists documented something interesting: in areas with more trees per capita, the number and severity of COVID-19 cases were lower than in places with fewer trees, even when accounting for differences in human population density1.
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Cities are embracing nature for flood defence

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By Erica Gies Verified
| Nature Verified
San Jose was flooded in 2017 when storm water in Coyote Creek was funnelled into the city.Credit: Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Coyote Creek’s waters rose fast in February 2017 amid a series of storms. Rainfall filled the small river in northern California, which runs 103 kilometres from its headwaters near Morgan Hill to San Francisco Bay. In San Jose, where the river was forced into a channel tightly constrained by development, water surged from the creek.
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