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Yes, and Yes
Can a large data center be built away from water resources and be independently powered?
Farmed Sourced News
Aug 120 min read
Arizona Agrivoltaics: Success With Skepticism
From scale-neutral to scale-specific: rethinking agrivoltaics through small farmers' rationalities
Farmed Sourced News
Jul 140 min read
Graham Co., AZ High Speed Internet
High-speed internet is coming to Graham County with new broadband infrastructure.
Farmed Sourced News
Jun 130 min read
Arizona Energy Future Report
Arizona Governor's Office of Resiliency & Institute for Rural Collaboration Release Report to Help Local Communities Advance Energy Future
Farmed Sourced News
Jun 10 min read
Data Centers Going Rural
Nearly 40% of Americans now live within 5 miles of a data center.
Farmed Sourced News
Apr 130 min read
Energy Infrastructure and the Defense Industrial Base
Can the energy infrastructure serving the U.S. defense industrial base sustain production under mobilization?
Farmed Sourced News
Mar 170 min read
Agrivoltaics Delivers
Agrivoltaics: How combining solar panels and farming delivers big benefits.
Farmed Sourced News
Mar 20 min read
AZ Large Water Uses
[C]ontext on Arizona’s evolving economy, clarifies misconceptions about high‑tech water demand.
Farmed Sourced News
Feb 30 min read
'Data Center Alley' Raises Infrastructure Concerns
The concentration of more than 143 data centers in Virginia's Loudoun County is creating unprecedented demands on the nation's power grid and raising questions about infrastructure resilience.
Farmed Sourced News
Sep 16, 20250 min read
Water Infrastructure and Natural Disasters
[R]ural, low-income, and other vulnerable communities struggle to get access to [government] funding.
Farmed Sourced News
Aug 11, 20250 min read
Misplaced Data
Data center development has run amok. The area in Northern Virginia known as "Data Center Alley," for example, is the largest cluster of data centers in the world. That's a problem.
Farmed Sourced News
Jul 8, 20250 min read
R.N.D.I. Partner Video
Open and watch the 30-second RNDI video.
Farmed Sourced News
Mar 3, 20250 min read
DHS: AI in Critical Infrastructure
A set of recommendations for the safe and secure development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in critical infrastructure from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Farmed Sourced News
Nov 14, 20240 min read
Investing in Rural America
Read how the U.S. Department of Transportation implemented billions of dollars in 2004 to build rural infrastructure.
Farmed Sourced News
Jul 1, 20240 min read
Using the Sun: Agrivoltaics
‘Planting’ solar panels on agricultural lands may prevent crop loss and generate clean energy.
Farmed Sourced News
Apr 25, 20240 min read
Expanding High-Speed Internet in Arizona's Tribal Lands
More than $100 million allotted for the Hopi, the Navajo, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, the San Carlos Apache Tribe, and the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
Nov 16, 20230 min read
Farming For Crops — and For Solar Power
Farming for solar power can be an additional money-maker.
Farmed Sourced News
Sep 12, 20220 min read
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