Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won’t support projects without consultation — energy and water consumption, air quality, noise, and c

“Our primary responsibility is to protect our citizens and tribal communities from these threats, so we will not support any hyperscale data centers on our reservation without proper consultation,” Hoskin said in the tri…

Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is ‘all’ the Vegas warehouse does

Scanning books en masse is nothing new. In 2005, Google spearheaded Google Books by scanning out-of-copyright titles from an on-campus library using specialized scanners . The books were then returned. Presumably, Google…

Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is ‘all’ the Vegas warehouse does

Scanning books en masse is nothing new. In 2005, Google spearheaded Google Books by scanning out-of-copyright titles from an on-campus library using specialized scanners . The books were then returned. Presumably, Google…