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Making sure that regular utility customers don’t get stuck bearing the burden of paying to run data centers is a main goal as state regulators consider the impacts of the energy-intensive facilities. -
Members of the House passed a bill requiring data centers to pay for increased costs associated with their energy demands. The proposed legislation now heads to the state Senate.
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Officials say a new Kansas law is drawing data centers to the state as details emerge about a possible new hyperscale campus in Leavenworth County in the broader Kansas City area.
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New Hampshire officials guaranteed election havoc at the Iowa caucuses, caused by technological error, will not occur in that state, where votes are cast with pencils on paper and most are counted by machines.
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Two bills in the New Mexico Legislature seek to provide funding to Diné College to start a college and career readiness program in Shiprock and provide high-speed Internet services at its John Pinto Library.
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A state district judge in Houston told Facebook on Jan. 29 that it must take down a privacy tool announced with much ballyhoo that same day and promoted with a blog post by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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At the Public Sector CIO Academy, experts from the public and private sectors provided insight into what IT leaders need to think about when considering data collection and sharing aimed at benefiting residents' lives.
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The House Homeland Security Committee will hear testimony from the National Institute of Standards and Technology regarding how the Department of Homeland Security uses the technology and its limitations.
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A network designed to transmit voter data to state officials during elections had to be shut down during a recent special primary because it was causing significant delays at polling sites, officials said this week.
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Bay City, Mich., has outlined procedures and requirements for installation of a small cell facility, fees, access to city right-of-way, use of city-owned poles, installation of new poles, location of facilities and more.
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Some states don’t collaborate with cities and counties to improve cybersecurity.
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Officials should ban the city’s use of facial recognition technology of the kind the Chicago Police Department utilizes on the grounds that it’s racially biased and an invasion of residents’ privacy, critics say.
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Officials in Nevada have cut ties with Shadow Inc., which is the software vendor at the heart of Iowa’s presidential nomination vote-counting debacle with questions swirling about whether it would work there.
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A bill that would leave it to local governments to regulate electric scooters cleared the Georgia Senate this week, addressing a set of vehicles that have overtaken Atlanta and other cities across the state.
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With new privacy rules clarifying what data companies can share, Google is limiting access to tools that track ad spending. The company is also limiting sharing its information with third-party advertising companies.
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The Federal Communications Commission this week began allowing federally recognized Native American tribes to apply for mid-band spectrum licenses. The licenses were once reserved for educational institutions.
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Around the world, elections are under attack. U.S. officials could learn from other countries about how to ensure everyone's vote is recorded and counted accurately.
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The Springfield City Council has long debated police use of facial recognition, but it was unable to reach a consensus on a proposal to block the department from incorporating such technology into its duties.
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Following the delayed results in Iowa, Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill promised Tuesday morning that “voters can have confidence" in that state, noting it does not use apps to tally votes.
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After Iowa Democrats gathered across the state to start winnowing the 2020 presidential field, results were nowhere to be found, with party officials there attributing the delay to issues with technology.
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The use of facial recognition technology is being debated in communities across the country, including in Massachusetts, where some local officials have taken regulating the technology upon themselves.
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