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As part of the latest wave of Big Tech spending on AI, Google recently announced a $9 billion investment to build a new data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of what's being called "Data Center Alley."  This kind of development is not confined to Northern Virginia.  Across the country, a data center industrial boom is reshaping landscapes, local economies, and the environment.

The Cool Down set out to map and analyze the impact of these changes across the country, interviewing top

In the realm of cyber security, the objective is to shield systems, networks, and software applications from digital assaults. These digital threats typically have the intentions of either evaluating, altering, or compromising confidential data, extracting money from users, or disrupting regular business operations. The task of establishing robust cyber security defenses presents a formidable challenge in the contemporary landscape, chiefly due to the proliferation of devices surpassing the huma

The Russian military continues to be active in Ukraine; movements that started on 23 February.  Of interest, the cyber conflict is mirroring the military conflict with Russian government websites going dark to some parts of the world after being targeted with a flood of web traffic via a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack attempting to knock them offline.  It is unclear who directed the attack or if it was successful in disrupting the sites.  However, cybersecurity researchers say the R