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Artificial intelligence enthusiasm and energy needs clash on Healey’s docket

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Gov. Maura Healey is all-in on artificial intelligence, but she's also trying to get a handle on soaring energy costs and a growing backlash to the very structures supporting the AI boom — data centers. This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporters Jennifer Smith and Jordan Wolman discuss the governor's new executive order trying to make data centers greener and more responsive to community feedback, and the paradox of pushing for expanded AI usage as communities revolt against its infrastructure.

First report: Trump pushes data centers. That puts him in opposition to many of his supporters. — cardinalnews.org, 1d