The House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding a hearing on the text of the Water Cost Accountability Act this morning, as data centers become a focal point of the campaign trail and public concern about footing their utility bills mounts. 

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Fengqi You, professor of energy systems engineering at Cornell University, studies sustainable energy systems. He is currently researching the impact of multi-country hydroelectric power systems.

New York State

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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James Grimmelmann is a professor of digital and information law at Cornell University and is an expert in content moderation, search engine regulation and online governance.

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The United Nations released a new report warning the world will miss its climate target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times and calling for ways to limit the resulting “overshoot.”

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Lake Powell water levels hit records lows this weekend, highlighting a growing threat to water and electricity supplies for millions of people in the American Southwest. Cornell University experts Patrick Reed and Flavio Lehner have been monitoring the driving causes behind the water drop, and how bad it could get in the coming decades.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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The New York State Legislature passed a one-year moratorium on data center permits, but the governor has yet to sign it. If she does, it would be the first statewide moratorium in the nation. Cornell experts weigh in on the potential pause.

New York State

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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Juan Hinestroza is a professor of fiber science and apparel design who has worked with athletic companies on high-performance apparel. He directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory.

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Jose Andres is a Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability who studies ecological and conservation genomics/environmental DNA.  He comments on the Trump administration's team-up with Colossal Biosciences, a private company, to preserve cells, tissue and DNA from threatened and endangered species. 

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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OpenAI has announced models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure. The companies are partnering to address the security incident.

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The Trump administration is discussing oversight on artificial intelligence models before they are made publicly available. The proposal is a departure from their long noninterventionist approach to AI. 

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