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A new poll from the Washington Post finds seven in ten Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities. That's a striking number, and it reflects growing tension between the infrastructure demands of the AI boom and the people who actually live near these facilities — dealing with noise, water use, and rising energy costs.
That energy pressure connects to a quieter but significant development in Europe, where France's nuclear reactors are now ramping down during peak daylight hours to make room for solar power flooding the continental grid. It's a remarkable reversal — the continent's largest nuclear fleet bending its output around the sun, signaling how seriously grid operators are taking renewable integration.
And in the world of AI research, a paper out of Google DeepMind describes what they're calling an AI co-mathematician — an agentic system designed not to replace mathematicians but to accelerate them, handling exploratory legwork while humans guide the deeper reasoning. It's an early but meaningful signal of how professional knowledge work may actually evolve alongside these tools.
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