The explosion of data centres across Virginia is sparking debate amongst residents, who now live with near constant reminders of artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) impact on both communities and their environment. While AI is being hailed by businesses for its transformative potential on industry, the communities on the front line of the AI boom may be more concerned with the technology’s environmental footprint and legacy.

If I asked you to think of the most tech-savvy industries, real estate is not likely to be one of them. Buying or selling a property still requires painful amounts of paperwork, mysterious fees, and other bureaucratic tasks. Commercial real estat...

Artificial or not, what's most important is that intelligence be useful. Which is why there's a better name for what businesses need right now: Useful Intelligence or what I call UI, or a tool that filters out bad or even dangerous informatio...