Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

And that computing power has a big environmental footprint. A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 ...
GovCon Wire

Amazon-Commerce Dept Challenge Links Open Data to Voice Recognition Tech

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 14, 2016 ” Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has partnered with the Commerce Department to host an event in Seattle that works to challenge software developers to build voice recognition ...
Forbes

Data Democracy: Empowering Communities Through Open Information

Don Murray is Cofounder & CEO of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. Imagine a world where governments made decisions in the dark, ...
The Daily Progress

CT: Open data challenge aims to find patterns in Downtown Mall use

Thousands of people work, play, dine and socialize on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall every day — and some of them connect their phones and computers to the mall’s free Wi-Fi network. The $7.5 million ...
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Visa halts open banking operations in US amid regulatory challenges

Visa has decided to discontinue its open-banking services in the US, citing ongoing regulatory ambiguity surrounding consumer data rights and the potential for increased fees related to customer ...