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Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers (theverge.com)

2026-09-18 | by Lauren Feiner | tags: virginia, data centers, ai task force

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Satellites Watched a Himalayan Glacier Speed Up for Weeks Before It Unleashed a Flash Flood That Killed Over 1,000 People (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-02 | tags: himalayan glacier, virginia tech, glacier collapse

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Google is helping bring cutting-edge battery tech to an old West Virginia strip mine (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-02 | get EcoFlow DELTA 2 portable power station → | tags: google, lithium-ion, zinc batteries

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Satellite images before Nepal disaster showed warning signs (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-02 | by Basu | tags: satellite images, glacier collapse, nepal disaster

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What’s your lab’s archetype? The answer could inform how you use AI (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-31 | by Ahart | get Plaud NotePin AI voice recorder → | tags: artificial intelligence, arxiv, west virginia university

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Aker Shares Climb After Nscale Gets $45 Billion Contract (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-27 | tags: aker, nscale, monarch

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Anthropic and Nscale strike $45 billion cloud deal, sources say (cnbc.com)

2026-08-26 | by Ashley Capoot | tags: anthropic, nscale, vera rubin

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Apple Wallet driver’s license support just launched in a new state (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-26 | by Chance Miller | get Apple MagSafe Wallet iPhone → | tags: apple wallet, driver’s license, wwdc

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Water behind the watts: The hidden risk of powering data centers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-25 | get Emporia Vue smart home energy monitor → | tags: data centers, water stress, power generation

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Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Scalpel (wired.com)

2026-08-14 | by Emily Mullin | tags: ultrasound therapy, west virginia university, substance use disorder

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Form Energy raises $750M to build more 100-hour batteries for the grid (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-12 | by Tim De Chant | tags: form energy, iron-air batteries, west virginia

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Apple settles lawsuit over alleged discrimination against Jewish employee (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-10 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, eeoc, religious discrimination

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There is no “done”: Reflections on a completed Appalachian Trail thru-hike (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Emilee Hackney | tags: appalachian trail, emilee hackney, southwest virginia

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There Is No "Done": Reflections on a Completed at Thru-Hike (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Emilee Hackney | tags: appalachian trail, emilee hackney, instagram

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Over 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers; US protests intensify as more arrests are being made — almost 40 arrested this year in backlash to AI factory buildout (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jon Martindale | tags: ai data centers, nashville zoo, freddie o'connell

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This New Field of Study Is Giving College Students an ‘Edge’ in the Job Market (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: ai degrees, computer science, virginia commonwealth university

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The AI boom has college majors of all types dabbling in computer science (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: artificial intelligence, machine learning, virginia commonwealth university

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This fusion startup just raised another $1 billion for its first commercial power plant (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: commonwealth fusion systems, fusion power plant, virginia

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Did Virginia Regulators Downplay Data Center Health Concerns? (slashdot.org)

2026-07-25 | by Posted | tags: virginia regulators, data center, health concerns

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One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it. (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-25 | by Tim De Chant | tags: pjm grid, ting labs, data centers

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Apple Wallet driver’s licenses coming to two more states soon: report (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-24 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: apple wallet, digital ids, utah

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Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | by Dana Anderson | tags: ai data centers, loudoun county, prince william county

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Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | get Privacy Protection Geolocation Blocker → | tags: virginia, geolocation data, vcdpa

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Virginia bans sale of geolocation data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | get Privacy Protection Software → | tags: virginia consumer data protection act, geolocation data, abigail spanberger

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Opinion | A Virginia Farm’s Lesson for America at 250 (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-02 | get Farmers' Market Starter Kit → | tags: virginia, farm, data center

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Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-01 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: data centers, dominion energy, virginia

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Digital Realty falls 5% after taking $3.5 billion stake in Blackstone's Virginia data centers (cnbc.com)

2026-06-30 | by Sawdah Bhaimiya | get Data Center Investment Guide → | tags: digital realty, blackstone, virginia data centers

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DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month (futurism.com)

2026-06-25 | by Frank Landymore | get DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser → | tags: duckduckgo, ai search, donald trump

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Opinion | Two Virginia Counties Diverge on AI Data Centers (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-06-19 | get AI Data Center Cooling System → | tags: loudoun, prince william, ai data centers

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Why employers should treat domestic violence as a workplace issue (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-17 | tags: domestic violence, workplace issue, west virginia