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Sophia Chen

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Science writer and lapsed physicist. Writer @thephysicsgirl; @MRSBulletin pod; bylines @WIRED, @techreview, sophurky.bsky.social
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Rural America’s Rising Backlash Against Data Centers: Environmental, Economic, and Political Concerns Fuel Nationwide Opposition

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By Sophia Chen, Liam Brown, Aarav Patel
| BizTech Weekly
The United States’ data-center boom—fueled by AI training and inference, cloud migration, and latency-sensitive edge services—is colliding with a hard reality: the most attractive parcels for rapid expansion are often in rural counties whose grids, water systems, and governance capacity were never built for 24×7 industrial-scale computing loads.
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AI Budgeting Crisis: Sam Altman Warns of Unsustainable Enterprise AI Spending Amid Industry Skepticism and Token Misuse

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By Liam Brown, Sophia Chen, Aarav Patel
| BizTech Weekly
Sam Altman’s recent remarks at an enterprise gathering—warning that some companies are questioning or even pausing AI spend—land at a moment when generative AI is shifting from novelty to infrastructure. The subtext is not simply that budgets are tightening; it’s that AI has graduated into a category where finance leaders expect the same discipline applied to cloud, SaaS, and cybersecurity. For much of the last two years, AI adoption was propelled by competitive anxiety.
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UC Professors Urge SAT/ACT Return Amid AI-Driven Learning Crisis and Math Deficiencies in College Admissions

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By Sophia Chen, Liam Brown, Aarav Patel
| BizTech Weekly
A growing bloc of University of California faculty is urging the system to reconsider SAT and ACT requirements, arguing that the post-pandemic era has exposed a widening gap between admissions signals and on-campus academic reality.
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