AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...
Morningstar

USDA-FSIS issues NOL for INNEO™, authorizing surface and in-product use as an anti-Listeria processing aid

QUÉBEC, Jan. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Innodal is pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) has issued a No Objection Letter (NOL) ...
Phoenix New Times

Chandler data center project will use ‘unknown’ amount of water

Those pushing for a controversial new AI data center in Chandler — a cohort that includes paid not-technically-a-lobbyist Kyrsten Sinema — have made big promises about how it would save the city water ...
E&E

States push to end secrecy over data center water use

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...
Bloomberg L.P.

What AI Bubble? BNEF Outlook for Data Center Power Use Rises 36%

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...
Frontiers

Rice origin traceability using mid-infrared and fluorescence spectral data fusion

1 School of Physics, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China 2 Engineering Tech, R&D Center Changchun Guanghua College, Changchun, China This study overcomes the limitations ...
Seeking Alpha

Automatic Data Processing: Double-Digit Dividend Hike Proves This Is A Dividend King Worth Owning

With the current state of the economy due to inflation, high-interest rates, potential AI disruptions, and a weakening labor market, it's quite refreshing to own dividend stocks. Particularly, ...
WSB-TV

Data center set to use 6 water towers worth of water per day in Georgia

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...
Ars Technica

Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”

As artificial intelligence drives the need for vastly more computing storage and processing power, interest in space-based data centers has spiked. Although several startup companies, such as ...
Government Technology

What Is Synthetic Data, and How Is Government Using It?

As AI becomes more common and decisions more data-driven, a new(ish) form of information is on the rise: synthetic data. And some proponents say it promises more privacy and other vital benefits. Data ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...