TECHNOLOGY

The representative seat covers most of Westfield in Hampden County, as well as all of Southampton in neighboring Hampshire County and has been an outlier in a heavily blue state.

Northampton Public Schools received a share of a state grant to bolster phone-free classroom measures.

Instead of building a new data center from scratch, old buildings and data centers can get upgraded to handle the power and cooling needs of the computer chips that make AI work.

Popular chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT are powered by models trained on enormous amounts of information, which means spending billions on vast data centers that take more power and water than entire cities. Instead, roboticists like Matthias Scheutz are thinking small. They’re designing AI systems compact enough to fit on a single computer chip.

Towns and cities across the region are using tools of local control to slow or stop data center development within their borders.

Across New England, data center opponents say they don’t trust the artificial intelligence industry

Panelists take a close look at law enforcement partnerships with ICE, Housatonic Water Works woes, and a stalled data center project in Westfield.

Without a permit extension, the proposed 150-acre data center campus has no path forward.

Members of DeFlock Holyoke and Springfield want those cities to cancel contracts for automated license plate readers

The Shoestring joined several other independent news outlets in filing a suit last Wednesday in New York’s Southern District seeking damages for the use of published material to build products like ChatGPT.