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Data centers are becoming a genuine political flashpoint. Communities across the country are pushing back against the power demands, water use, and land footprint of these facilities, and that frustration is now showing up in local and state races. Meanwhile, Congress hasn't moved meaningful legislation to address it, leaving the tension to simmer.
That friction connects to a broader question Pew Research is now trying to answer: just how much of the internet is actually written by artificial intelligence? Their two thousand twenty six study attempts to measure AI-generated content at scale, and the findings raise real questions about trust, authorship, and what it means to read something online anymore.
And in the category of stories that feel almost mythological, an ancient Bitcoin wallet that turned one hundred twenty dollars into three million dollars just came back to life. It's part of a broader pattern — at least four more decade-old wallets moved a combined fifteen point seven million dollars in just the past week, with some coins heading to Coinbase in what looks very much like a sale.
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