Governor Walz talks about Destination Medical Center and data centers in Rochester (Olmsted County)

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Post Bulletin reports…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Rochester on Wednesday, Sept. 23, to speak about Destination Medical Center and the years of public and private investments into the local economic development initiative.

Data centers came up…

When asked about AI innovation and guardrails, Walz said he sees the frustration around generative AI use and data center development as a communication issue.

“We’re going to have the resources, energy-wise, to be able to make sure prices don’t go up on folks, but the industry has done little to talk about that,” Walz said. “The frustration, I think, with the data centers is just a manifestation of the anxiety around AI in general.”

Walz said technology companies should communicate more with communities on what happens inside data centers and how that computing power is used.

“Make the connection to them,” Walz said, “that the data center is going to process the images … of that tumor in your child that is going to be taken out and cured.”

Woodbury approves moratorium on new data center (Washington County)

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Woodbury News Net reports…

Woodbury’s City Council approved a moratorium Sept. 23 on new data centers and expansion beyond existing approvals, giving the city up to a year to study water use, electricity demand, noise and possible zoning changes.

Before voting, council members worked through which changes would require new permits and which activities existing approvals already allowed.

Woodbury has no active applications or conversations with data center developers, City Planner Eric Searles said. The city intends to study the industry before another proposal arrives.

More on local data centers…

Before approval, council members broadened the restriction to cover building permits and other city permits, including electrical permits and permits for work in public rights of way.

The ordinance presented to the council blocks related rezoning proposals, comprehensive plan amendments, conditional use permits and variances, along with applications to establish or expand data centers. It also covers proposed water or sewer users whose annual consumption would place them among the city’s largest users. It takes effect upon adoption and publication and can end before a year if the city repeals it or adopts replacement regulations.

Woodbury’s three existing data centers include two IronGate facilities and a Medtronic facility at 515 Bielenberg Drive.

The city identified the three centers as similar or like uses and does not regulate them through conditional use or other zoning permits, but the future study could establish regulations and rules for permits that would affect existing facilities and future development.

At its existing Woodbury facilities, IronGate lists 15 megawatts of capacity for computing equipment at 401 Bielenberg Drive, its east campus, and 6 megawatts leased at 500 Bielenberg Drive, its west campus. The company describes both campuses as fully leased. Its website does not report either facility’s actual electricity use or capacity for future expansion.

Operators of the facility at 500 Bielenberg Drive had told the city they were at electrical capacity, although space remained available inside the building, Searles said. City officials did not provide exact electrical capacity figures for each facility at the meeting.

EVENT Sep 29: Monticello Tech LLC, data center developer, hosts meeting (Wright County)

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The Monticello Times reports…

Monticello Tech LLC, the developer proposing a large data center campus in Monticello, will hold a community open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, at River City Extreme, 3875 School Boulevard.

The event is being organized by the developer and is not a city-hosted public meeting. Representatives are expected to present information about the proposed development and answer questions from community members.

It will be the second open house hosted by the development team, following an event held at the same location in January.

Doors will open at 6 p.m., with the Monticello Tech presentation beginning at 6:15 p.m. A question-and-answer session will follow, along with small-group breakout sessions for additional questions.

The proposed campus would encompass up to 3 million square feet on land south of 85th Street Northeast and east of Highway 25.

The open house is free and open to the public. Appetizers, water and soda will be provided.

MN Letters to the editor on data centers (Aug 17-Sep 22, 2026): a look at the ranges of views

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This is the second in a growing series. As data centers have been an increasingly hot topic, I’ve posted informational articles, events (announcements and notes), decisions and counter decisions. In July, I began collecting editorials that crossed my transom with minimal curation to share with readers in chronological order. Again, this is the second edition in this roughly monthly series.

It’s meant as a quick scan of what topics are rising to the top for others. I will likely continue to collect and post in the future. I usually try to be balanced, but this is more illustrative of what crosses my path.

Port: Refocus the data center debate from hysteria to reality: They’re getting built
Aug 17, 2026 InFORUMN
Demand for data centers is being driven by our demand for digital services, including AI. Those who think we can stop their construction are kidding themselves.

Other View: Building data centers in space a crazy but great idea – Duluth News Tribune
Aug 21, 2026 Duluth News Tribune
From the editorial: “Orbital data centers may prove to be a completely irrational business venture. That’s no reason to oppose them.”

Letter: Debunking the case against a data center moratorium
Aug 22, 2026 InForumn
Carter Hass of Valley City writes about positives and negatives of data centers, not the politics.

Letter about Harmony data center…
Aug 24, 2026 Fillmore County Journal
“For Harmony, the central question is simple: What concrete economic benefit do local residents receive, and who carries the risk if the projections prove wrong?”

Letter: Data center comes at Pine Island’s expense
Aug 25, 2026, Post Bulletin
“Pine Island belongs to the people — not to Google.”

Other View: Secrecy a surefire way to lose public trust on data centers – Duluth News Tribune
Aug 26, 2026, Duluth News Tribune
From the editorial: “While NDAs aren’t unheard of in the public sector, using them to fuzzy up the details of a topic of such intense public interest is arguably never appropriate.

National View: Data-center moratoriums penalize public schools, taxpayers
Aug 31, 2026 Duluth News Tribune
From the column: “With two decades of data-center growth, Loudoun (County, Virginia) has maintained its pastoral character and remains a destination for many … who want good jobs and a better quality of life.”

Data centers, community growth, and looking ahead
Sep 3, 2026, Isanti-Chisago County Times
“At the same time, local communities have every right to ask questions.”

Letter: Look to the facts in data center disputes
Sep 3, 2026 Hometown Source
“Most of us use a data center every day without thinking about it.”

Data centers, cameras and AI
Sep 4, 2026, Pine County News
We all want the technology that helps make our lives easier and safer, but we need to consider the tradeoffs to our health, environment and civil liberties.

McFeely: Data center propaganda in full swing
Sep 7, 2026 InForum
Polling shows data centers increasingly unpopular, but ND Republicans and pundits don’t want to hear it

Data centers, cameras and AI
Sep 7, 2026, North Pine County News
“We all want the technology that helps make our lives easier and safer, but we need to consider the tradeoffs to our health, environment and civil liberties.”

Some Data Centers Are Good
September 08, 2026, Twin Cities Business
“There’s a way to win here, and it’s not by going the route of the moratoriums. We need to start by agreeing that some data centers are good.“

Opinion | Before a data center moves forward, Minneapolis must listen to the river
Sep 10, 2026, Minnesota Star Tribune
“We need to know how the proposed data center in the old Minnesota Star Tribune printing facility would impact the Mississippi River.”

Interim councilor says ‘don’t close your mind’ on data center discussion
Sep 11, 2026, Faribault Daily
“Anderson also warned about misinformation plaguing the conversation around data centers and thinks the community should dig deeper as it weighs the pros and cons.”

They Agreed, So I Read It Twice: The View from Up North
Sep 12, 2026, Minneapolis Times
“Lisa Demuth and Amy Klobuchar have found rare common ground on data centers: let communities decide, insist on transparency and make developers answer the hard questions.”

Data centers can be built responsibly
Sep 15, 2026, MinnPost
“We’re not having a full, balanced conversation about the risks and potential benefits of data centers in Minnesota.”

Ramstad: AI won’t kill us, and government won’t save us
Sep 16, 2026, MN Star Tribune
“Stop elevating AI executives as gods and expecting politicians to do things they don’t understand.”

MINNEAPOLIMEDIA EDITORIAL | Minnesota’s Data Center Boom Is Becoming a Test of Energy, Water and Local Democracy
Sep 17, 2026, MinneapoliMedia
The arrival of large data center proposals in Minnesota was initially presented as a straight economic development story… That framing is no longer adequate.

Artificial intelligence
Sep 17, 2026, Timberjay
Time to put the brakes on a technology with too many questions

Statewide View: Minnesota cannot afford to sit out data-center investments
Sep 19, 2026 Duluth News Tribune
From the column: “Prosperity comes from building things, attracting investment, and creating an environment where businesses want to grow.”

Cal Thomas: Will AI cause Doomsday in the world?
Sep 10, 2026, West Central Tribune
From the commentary, “AI should be taken seriously, but we probably need not panic as with so many other doomsday predictions.”

Candidate’s View: Vote for a legislator who knows how to protect public dollars
Sep 20, 2026, Duluth News Tribune
From the column: “My vote in the Minnesota Senate will belong to the people of Senate District 7 — not to any party, special interest, corporation, or political insider.”

Sen Klobuchar Receives Rural Electric Co-op Distinguished Service Award – in part for broadband work

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Senator Klobuchar announces…

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was awarded the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s (NRECA) 2026 Distinguished Service Award for championing electric cooperatives and the communities they serve. Klobuchar was nominated for the award by co-op leaders, including directors of the Minnesota Rural Electric Association (MREA). Klobuchar is the only Member of Congress to receive the award for the coming year.

They call out her work in broadband…

Klobuchar has long led efforts to support rural electric cooperatives and the communities they serve, as well as to support rural broadband and bridge the digital divide. …

Klobuchar has championed programs such as the Rural Utilities Service Electric Infrastructure Financing for rural infrastructure improvements and ReConnect for rural broadband deployment.

US Senators Sanders and Casar introduce legislation to create new federal agency to ban artificial superintelligence, pause advanced AI development

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Senator Bernie Sanders announces…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act — legislation to stop artificial intelligence (AI) oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control and to pause advanced AI development until we have put in place rigorous federal testing and oversight to ensure AI does not harm humanity.

“When you are racing towards a cliff, you don’t just ease up on the gas pedal. You hit the brakes. When the future of humanity is at stake, we cannot let a handful of Big Tech CEOs write their own rules,” Sanders said. “Scientists have been clear: AI is an existential threat to humanity. It must be treated as such. This legislation will permanently ban the development of artificial superintelligence and would put in place an immediate pause on advanced AI development until we have clear safety rules in place — developed by the most knowledgeable scientists in our country. Congress must act now before it is too late.”

“Experts are warning that AI superintelligence, wielded by the wrong humans or by rogue AI, could kill countless numbers of people. But Donald Trump says he wants to encourage it. Something has to change,” Casar said. “Our bill bans the development of artificial superintelligence and pushes for international agreements so that no one, anywhere, builds AI too powerful for humans to control. Furthermore, our bill would immediately halt other dangerous AI capabilities, such as the capacity to develop biochemical weapons, or the capacity for AI to develop new AI instead of humans.”

Over the past few months, we have learned that AI models can circumvent restrictions to hack into computers. We have learned they can create never-before-seen viruses. And we have learned they can automate research to build smarter AI. Even as the AI companies claim they recognize these dangers and want to slow down, they are racing ahead — investing hundreds of billions of dollars into a technology that nobody can fully predict or control. That is unacceptable. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act will protect humanity by:

  • Banning Artificial Superintelligence. No person or entity may develop or deploy Artificial Superintelligence — an AI that exceeds human cognitive performance and capabilities across most domains, or has sufficient capabilities to destroy or disempower humanity, including by overthrowing the federal government.
  • Pausing Advanced AI development until a new, federal AI regulatory body is up and running and has established clear rules and model review processes to ensure safe and secure development and deployment of AI.
  • Establishing a new cabinet-level federal Department of Artificial Intelligence to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence, including by enforcing a prohibition on artificial superintelligence. This department will be advised by the most knowledgeable scientists in our country to:
    • Monitor frontier AI systems at all stages of the lifecycle for dangerous capabilities.
    • Supervise the removal of dangerous capabilities like subverting shutdown commands or conducting unauthorized cyberattacks.
    • Supervise the destruction of artificial superintelligence.
  • Setting penalties for any person or entity that attempts to violate or circumvent the pauses and prohibitions laid out in this bill. Entities shall be subject to the corporate death penalty, and persons shall be subject to not more than 20 years in prison, which is similar to existing penalties related to unlawfully developing nuclear weapons.
  • Working to ban superintelligence around the world by setting the international policy of the United States to pursue international agreements, allied coordination, and policies such as export controls to prevent the development of artificial superintelligence anywhere in the world.

Read the bill text here.

Read a one-page summary here.

Read a section-by-section summary here.

Office of Broadband Development Update Sep 23 2026: BEAD, Line Extension, Task Force notes and Digital Skill Resource

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From the Office of Broadband Development…

Broadband Matters: Office of Broadband Development Updates

  • OBD, in the field!
  • Broadband Task Force, September meeting recap
  • 25 Hours. One Connected World: A live global digital skills marathon expanding opportunity for all
  • Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) updates
  • Line Extension Connection Program, registration open for residents and businesses

OBD, in the field!

OBD staff have been busy continuing to perform site visits across the state for the Border to Border Broadband Grant Program and the Line Extension Connection Program to ensure infrastructure grant compliance and connect with grantees.

Since June, the team has gone on site visits for grantee projects with providers from Arvig, MiEnergy Cooperative, Paul Bunyan Communications, Woodstock Telephone Company, Meeker Coop Light and Power Association, Lismore Cooperative Telephone Co., Runestone Telecom Association, East Central Energy (ECE), Midco, Benton Cooperative Telephone Company, and Albany Mutual Telephone Association.

Additionally! Stream OBD’s Executive Director Bree Maki’s podcast episode with Connected Nation, which explores Minnesota’s broadband journey, the challenges of connecting communities across the state’s diverse landscape, and the lessons for other states as they enter the next phase of broadband deployment. Available online here: https://bit.ly/4h7F1I7.

Governor’s Broadband Task Force, September meeting recap

The Governor’s Broadband Task Force met last week, Wednesday September 16 and heard presentations from Amy Baldwin (Community Development Director, CDA & HRA Executive Director, Otter Tail County) and John Horrigan ( Senior Fellow, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society), as well as updates from OBD’s Bree Maki (Executive Director). The Task Force subgroups also met to discuss work on the upcoming annual report.

Information on upcoming meetings in 2026, well as past meetings, can be found on the Broadband Task Force webpage.

25 Hours. One Connected World: A live global digital skills marathon expanding opportunity for all

Connected Nation, longtime vendor and partner of OBD, is partnering with over 25 global organizations in a first-ever attempt to set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the “longest internet literacy live stream,” aimed at expanding digital skills access worldwide.

This event, “25 Hours. One Connected World,” will run September 24-25, featuring 25 consecutive hours of live, expert-led digital skills training accessible globally as it follows the sun across six continents, starting in the United States, via live stream at bit.ly/CNWorldRecord beginning at 8 a.m. CT.

Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) updates

OBD is continuing to work through required project scope changes and preparing contracts for execution. Updated information and resources can be found on the OBD BEAD webpage including:

On September 3, 2026, the NTIA announced a new BEAD Supplemental Deployment Policy Notice that introduces an updated process for BEAD implementation. OBD continues to wait for NTIA to release additional information, including details on timelines, and states will provide further updates and resources as available to keep partners and providers informed. Currently, the estimated timeline (subject to change from NTIA) is:
PIC

Providers and community members can contact OBD at DEED.broadband@state.mn.us with questions on BEAD.

Line Extension Connection Program, registration open for residents and businesses

Registration remains open for residents and businesses for future rounds of the Line Extension Connection Program.

For assistance completing the application, or to request a paper form to complete, please call 651-259-7610 or email DEED.broadband@state.mn.us.

More information and registration are available on the Line Extension Connection Program webpage.

PowerOn Midwest plans to build multi-billion dollar power infrastructure in SD and MN (Murray County)

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KELO reports...

It’s an energy project that planners say is big enough, but a skeptic said it is too big.

The PowerOn Midwest is a multi-billion-dollar project that will build a 765 kV transmission line that will connect eastern South Dakota, southern Minnesota, and the larger Upper Midwest. The grid needs to move 10,000 megawatts of capacity for the coming decades, said Kevin Coss of Xcel Energy. One megawatt is enough to power about 800 average homes in the Upper Midwest, he said in an email response to KELOLAND News questions.

It’s the first 765kV line project in the Upper Midwest, PowerOn participants said. The 345kV transmission line is more common in the Upper Midwest, according to multiple industrial websites. American Electric Power “operates more than 2,200 miles of 765 kV transmission lines across six states, supported by over 8,000 structures that span diverse terrain,” according to its website. States include Ohio and Indiana.

The project cost in South Dakota is estimated between $1.3 and $1.7 billion, Coss said. PowerOn Minnesota costs are estimated between $3.4 and $4.3 billion dollars, he said.

It will traverse parts of Minnesota…

The project’s path takes it from near Milbank, South Dakota, down to Brookings and across southwestern Minnesota, including Murray County. The South Dakota route will be about 90 miles from the Big Stone South Substation in Grant County to the Brookings substation near White, Coss said. The Minnesota portion is about 160 miles.

The article outlines the history, including controversies of the project.

Harmony Township considering a two-year moratorium for data center: more meetings planned (Fillmore County)

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InForum reports…

Harmony Township may enact a two-year moratorium that would halt Geronimo Power’s efforts to build a data center in the area.

Approximately 50 people gathered Tuesday morning, Sept. 22, at the Mapleton Community Center, including township leaders and residents. Other interested parties in attendance included representatives from Geronimo Power, a Minnesota-based energy company that is building a solar facility in the township and recently shared plans for more developments, including battery storage and a data center.

A common sentiment among the people who spoke up during the meeting’s public comment period was: “It’s moving too fast.”

Dustin Burchill — appointed to take Jim Nelson’s place as board chair after he stepped down — said residents filed a petition asking to be heard on why they feel a moratorium is appropriate.

Residents at Tuesday’s meeting shared concerns about tonal noise, decreased property values, water usage, road traffic, ability to farm organically, lack of study into wildlife impacts and lack of research as a whole on the impacts of data centers.

The topic got some traction…

Burchill made a motion, which passed unanimously, to hold a public hearing that would serve as a formal opportunity for people to comment on whether they think a moratorium is appropriate.

The language he used in his motion — which may not be the final language used — was for a two-year zoning moratorium for all industrial-scale development including solar, wind, data centers, battery storage systems, electric transmission lines and gas-fired electrical generation facilities “in order to update its zoning ordinances to further protect the township and its residents.”

The process will include special meetings as well as a recommendation by the zoning board, township supervisors told The Forum after the meeting adjourned.

The township’s next regular meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 20. The date of the special meeting has not been determined.

Doug Dawson has practical ways to create better broadband maps

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Doug Dawson is a smart guy. He finds ways to make seemingly insurmountable jobs relatively easy. He recently wrote about the problem with broadband mapping…

I’m all for changes that would create an accurate broadband map. But I’m fairly certain that the FCC is not going to consider making the changes that would actually improve the maps. The biggest problem with the current maps is that speeds claimed by ISPs are sometimes far different than what is being delivered. Fixing that would require the FCC to actually look at what’s in the maps and challenge ISPs that exaggerate speeds. I can’t imagine the agency adopting new rules that would saddle itself with that responsibility.

He came up with a tech-centric solution…

There is an existing tool that could be used  to compare claimed speeds to actual speeds. Ookla records millions of speed tests across the country for all ISPs. The FCC could buy the Ookla speed test records to compare against ISP claims. With AI and other new analytic tools, it wouldn’t be hard to compare Ookla speeds to FCC claimed speeds.

If speed tests were considered, ISPs would instantly yell that speed tests aren’t accurate enough to use to judge them. In many ways, they would be right. People often take speed tests when their broadband isn’t performing right. There are lots of homes where speeds are slower due to WiFi issues. A computer sitting close to the WiFi router will show faster speeds than a computer at the other end of a home. Many customers subscribe to lower speed tiers, which, by definition, don’t show the capability of the ISP.

But when large numbers of speed tests are used correctly, they are a valuable tool for understanding an ISP’s real performance. I’ve been lucky enough to work with counties that have purchased the full Ookla speed data set. Those tests provided them with enough data to do meaningful comparisons.

And gives at least one reason self-reporting can be tricky…

Speed tests show all sorts of other interesting facts about ISP coverage. I’ve written several times in the past about how the speed for FWA cellular wireless quickly diminishes with distance from the tower. An FWA carrier might be delivering 300 Mbps to a customer within a short distance of a tower, but after a mile, speed drops to 100 Mbps. By two miles speed drops to 50-75 Mbps, and at three miles drop to the range of 25 Mbps. Most FWA speed claims in the FCC map will show 100 Mbps across the entire area around a tower, and much of that speed claim is overstated.

State broadband offices (and some industry groups) are exhausted with BEAD

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Fierce Network reports...

According to interviews and research from the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, state broadband officers (SBOs) are exhausted by the challenges and shifting dynamics of implementing the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.

Leaders from the Benton Institute have interviewed over 30 SBOs, so far, about what it is taking to implement BEAD. And Dr. Ravati Prasad of the Benton Institute talked about the takeaways from those conversations in a recent Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) webinar.

“The people who are in charge of overseeing this work are feeling exhausted,” said Prasad. “It’s been a long haul, and more than one person said to us, ‘Just want to get it done.’ Their legislatures aren’t exactly hostile to broadband; their governors aren’t hostile to broadband. They’re just not particularly interested in talking about it anymore.”

The Minnesota Broadband Task Force has monthly meetings, where Bree Maki from the Office of Broadband Development gives an update. (See notes and video from September’s meeting.) She shares her experience working with limited and changing information from the funder and trying to manage expectations with the providers.

The providers are also feeling the pinch, as demonstrated by an industry group asking for changes to BEAD…

NRECA is urging the Trump administration to overhaul implementation of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program to ensure BEAD meets its statutory goal to connect every American home and business with reliable, high-speed internet.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced a new round of available BEAD funding on Sept. 3 that NRECA CEO Jim Matheson said continues the program’s “misguided” approach that could leave rural communities behind.

Google talks to Hermantown about data center improvements at public meeting (St Louis County)

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Nnorthern News Now reports…

Google representatives shared updates on its proposed data center in Hermantown Monday night including changes after the public raised environmental concerns.

A company spokesperson said they’ve acted on the public’s main concerns, hoping to reduce the impact on well water, trout streams, and wetlands.

“I want to again thank the public for their continued comments at past council meetings, at past open houses, at neighbor meetings, etc,” said Google Representative Liz Schwab. “It has certainly helped us to shape and improve the project.

Google says those actions include monitoring wells and reducing the impacts to wetlands by 37 percent.

The company is also creating a decommissioning agreement if the site becomes obsolete in the future.

As a part of their philanthropy efforts, Google will also be donating $2.5 million to local grants and nonprofits.

Some residents at the meeting say they shouldn’t have had to beg for Google to take action.

It sounds as if things have been getting heated in Hermantown. The meeting included a reminder of public decorum at meetings as well as mention of a preliminary report of its internal investigation, which was initiated after disparaging remarks of data center opponents were leaked and posted by the Duluth Monitor.

Fox21 reports…

The Duluth News Tribune and WDIO also covered the story.

Comcast’s Xfinity deploys broadband to 13,000 new locations in Chanhassen and Nowthen (Anoka and Carver Counites)

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Comcast announces…

Comcast’s Xfinity announced today that nearly 13,000 new homes and businesses in Chanhassen and Nowthen, Minnesota now have access to high-speed Internet from America’s smartest and most reliable, converged network. Xfinity brings Internet, mobile, entertainment, and smart home services together in one simple, seamless solution. Chanhassen and Nowthen join more than 65 million homes and businesses nationwide with access to a fiber-powered network that fuels innovation, productivity, and everyday connection.

Residents can sign up for Xfinity services by visiting Xfinity.com and businesses can visit ComcastBusiness.com to see if their address is eligible for service. Nowthen residents can visit the Xfinity Store in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, located at 12940 Riverdale Dr. NW, Suite 800, Coon Rapids, MN 55448. Residents of Chanhassen can visit the Xfinity Store at 464 Lake Drive, Chanhassen, MN 55317.

EVENT Sep 30, 2026: Data Center Ordinance Community Input Session in Eagan (Dakota County)

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From Hometown Source...

Eagan residents can share input about potential regulations for data centers at the Data Center Ordinance Community Input Session from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, at Eagan City Hall, 3830 Pilot Knob Rd.

Before the city ordinance is drafted, the city wants to hear residents’ concerns, questions and potential impacts the City should consider.

There will not be a presentation or Q&A.

The session will offer interactive stations for residents to share concerns, identify questions the City should research, and residents can talk about what should be considered as potential regulations are developed.

If unable to attend, residents can share feedback online, http://polco.us/n/res/vote/eagan-mn/data-center-community-survey.

Learn more at cityofeagan.com/data-center-ordinance.

New Prairie High School host conversation on AI, data centers. policy and more (Hennepin County)

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SouthernMinn.com reports on a recent event in Eden Prairie…

rom job loss to nudification technology, data centers to the end times, a recent southwest metro forum on artificial intelligence underscored the low-boil anxiety of Minnesotans about this unsettling technological change — and myriad policy questions emerging from it.

The recent campaign forum-style event at New Prairie High School in Eden Prairie was moderated by Dr. Krish Subrahmanian, a Hennepin Healthcare pediatrician who is also the   Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee to succeed state Sen. Steve Cwodzinski in a district covering parts of the southwest Twin Cities metro. He was joined by Attorney General Keith Ellison, as well as representatives from academia, business and labor.

The article goes on to highlights views and comments from presenters and attendees.