3+ day, 18+ min ago   (983+ words) A clean energy group is calling on the Iowa Utilities Commission and policymakers to ensure utility companies don't use data center energy demands to build new facilities and pass the costs on to ratepayers. Iowa Business for Clean Energy, in…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (613+ words) About two weeks after the Marshall County Zoning Commission unanimously recommended a six-month moratorium on data center construction, the Board of Supervisors took up the matter during their regular meeting on Wednesday morning and seemed to reach a consensus about…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (496+ words) Iowa is spending public money to expand apprenticeship because employers need a reliable way to turn beginners into skilled workers. Companies adopting artificial intelligence should apply the same logic to the time the technology saves. In April, Iowa Workforce Development…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (186+ words) Unfortunately, the structure of this deal is socialist and I am not going to pretend otherwise because a Republican signed it. We have seen this movie three times this year. Washington took roughly 10% of Intel and called it the CHIPS…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (366+ words) Rogers Elementary School kindergarten teachers Courtney Arp and Megan Cutright are both in their 15th years as educators, and neither of them have ever experienced anything like their current situation at the start of the 2026-2027 school year: three sets of identical…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (785+ words) (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of the two-part data center roundtable series.) There are different types of data centers, they come in different sizes and the language has evolved to define what they are. Marshalltown Assistant Director of Housing…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (613+ words) (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series on the data center roundtable meeting held Thursday night at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum) The voices of Marshalltown residents were heard Thursday evening during a public roundtable on data centers…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1641+ words) For 45 years, Hugh Espey worked with Iowa communities in opposition to large scale livestock operations and pipelines. Now as concern toward data centers mounts, Espey said he sees parallels to the previous fights. Espey is retired from Iowa Citizens for…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (231+ words) Austin Power’s nemesis, Dr. Evil, looks positively saintly and normal compared to these weirdo evil clowns who, in another life, would be luring your children into sewers with red balloons. Every time the conversation might change, Dario Amodei pipes up…...