Across the U.S., more data centers are being proposed, permitted, and built, and many communities are pushing back. Their concerns are real: noise, land use, water consumption, the strain on local infrastructure, and the simple fact that these massive facilities rarely feel like “good neighbors.” At the same time, generative AI use is skyrocketing. And whether we like it or not, the two conversations are directly linked. The Orange Peel Collaborative works at the intersection of people and...

The current state of AI adoption in the workplace looks like a community ice rink. Comfort and levels of adoption range from holding onto the wall and slowly skating a loop without falling, to hockey players skating fast without padding, and semi-pros pirouetting in the center. In a workplace setting this can look like no formalized AI adoption process or “Shadow AI Use” (using personal AI tools for workplace tasks) to preemptive layoffs in favor of promised productivity and profit gains, to...

*Guest blog written for The Nerd Lawyer https://www.nerdlawyer.ai/ In the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the...