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Data center backlash signals a fight over AI power

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By Tom Wheeler
| Brookings Institution
“You don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing,” Bob Dylan wrote in 1965. For election season 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) is blowing at gale force. The flashpoint has been data centers, the multi-football field-sized computing facilities that power AI. Fundamentally, this is a fight about power and whether it will be exercised by democratic institutions or those that control the infrastructure of AI. Local citizen outrage has taken its toll.
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G7 should accept AI standards offer, but make it enforceable

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By Tom Wheeler
| Brookings Institution
The recent G7 meeting featured the sovereigns of artificial intelligence (AI) assembled around a table with the heads of government of the world’s leading democratic economies. Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Arthur Mensch of Mistral, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, Alexandr Wang of Meta, and other AI luminaries joined the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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EcoNews Report: The chemical in our tires that could be killing salmon

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By Tom Wheeler, Jennifer Kalt, Scott Greacen
| KHSU-FM (Arcata, CA) Verified
On this week's episode Jen Kalt and Sylvia van Royen of Humboldt Waterkeeper and Tiffany Douglas of the Wiyot Tribe join the show to discuss their study on 6PPD-quinone in our local waterways, killing coho salmon. The chemical 6PPD-quinon is a product of 6PPD, which is put in tires to prevent cracking and structural failure, that is formed when bits of car tire interact with ozone. The Wiyot Tribe and Humboldt Waterkeeper sampled 19 urban streams and parking lots that discharge stormwater runoff.
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