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Warnings about the risks AI poses to humans have triggered a heated global

September 18, 2026, 6:00 AM ET A data center in Abilene, Texas. The conversation around data centers has turned into a nose-to-nose shouting match between politicians, NIMBYs, and tech billionaires. Ask about the concerns and you’ll get an earful about water consumption, farmland, rural electricity bills and tax abatements. Every objection is reasonable, but each assumes the buildings these data centers will occupy will still be worth something in 2035. Once again, everyone is asking the wrong

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September 19, 2026, 9:05 AM ET AI may be restoring the importance of the liberal arts degree, at least according to the cofounder of one of the industry’s biggest players. Jack Clark, a billionaire cofounder of Anthropic and former journalist who majored in English literature and creative writing, says his literary education is what helped him become an influential figure in the world of AI. | Newsletter “I’m a literature graduate, and I don’t think you’d put that as a cofounder of a frontier AI