A new report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy urges regulators and utilities to make the grid operate more efficiently. There are ways, experts said, to absorb part of data centers’ growth.
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Plus, Massachusetts is opening applications for its Digital Accessibility and Equity Governance Board, Denver launched a streaming platform, experts dub fiber broadband deployment as essential, and more. -
Research from the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley shows that those states passed a total of 99 bills, with the majority of them passing between one and three pieces of legislation.
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From San Jose, Calif., to Washington, D.C., cities are advancing AI training for staffers or members of the public. Mesa, Ariz., recently launched its own AI education initiative to support adoption.
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A recent blog post from Anthropic, a large AI company in the U.S., signals that the tech can help governments "modernize" legacy systems based on that old language. The stakes are high, as so much still runs on COBOL.
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From Pilot to Launch: What will it take to scale AI in government?
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As fears of an AI “bubble” persist, officials and gov tech suppliers are looking to move past pilots and deploy larger, more permanent projects that bring tangible benefits. But getting there is easier said than done. -
Artificial intelligence has been dominant for several years. But where has government taken it? More than a decade after the GT100's debut, companies doing business in the public sector are ready to prove their worth.
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The boom of early Internet in the mid-1990s upended government IT. The rise of artificial intelligence isn't exactly the same, but it isn't completely different. What can we learn from 30 years ago?
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Though denying liability, the cloud software provider and its client, Chicago Public Schools, are paying to settle allegations of improperly collecting, monitoring and sharing private data and communications.
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Elementary and middle school students in Wake County, N.C., aren’t allowed to use their phones at all during the school day, but the district is considering an exception for recording video for safety reasons.
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A police official said that Flock Safety is providing one drone on loan for the town police force to try out, and they intend to start using it to get aerial coverage of Lewiston’s summer events.
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Several signs suggest 2026 could be a tipping point for Florida when it comes to large-scale data centers, the facilities that house thousands of servers for AI and other tech programs.
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With over 187,000 residents, Cary is working to expand services to serve its growing community, and so far, this includes some minor uses of new, emerging artificial intelligence technologies.
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What were the top government technology and cybersecurity blog posts in 2024? The metrics tell us what cybersecurity and technology infrastructure topics were most popular.
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The chief information officer for the Diamond State has been in place since 2023 and was previously its chief technology officer. Lane has been with Delaware for eight years, following a 35-year private-sector career.
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School districts across the nation are reacting to word from K-12 software giant PowerSchool that its student information system has been compromised, exposing data from teachers and students.
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The outgoing administration may have notched a win with its elevation of broadband as a societal necessity, but observers were critical of other aspects of its plan to expand the technology nationwide.
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Completed in less than a year, the new state website combines 64 separate state sites into a unified digital destination with a smoothed search function. The Pennsylvania Office of Digital Experience led the effort.
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