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OK Data Centers and the Grid
Some data centers are building their own power plants. In Oklahoma, most want to plug into the grid.
Farmed Sourced News
Aug 60 min read
Rural, Tribal, and Urban Connections
ODOT launches Oklahoma Mobility Plan to guide future needs.
Farmed Sourced News
Jul 150 min read
Oklahoma Transportation Infrastructure
Counties across Oklahoma to benefit from more than $950 million in road and bridge improvement plan.
Farmed Sourced News
Jul 70 min read
Oklahoma BEAD Grant
NTIA Approves $574 million BEAD Grant Program for Oklahoma.
Farmed Sourced News
Apr 220 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
'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
Securing the Backbone of Artificial Intelligence
The cybersecurity of AI data centers is becoming increasingly important.
Farmed Sourced News
Sep 4, 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
Closing the Digital and Economic Divides in Rural America
America [still] has a rural broadband problem. Still relevant 8 years following this 2018 Brookings Institution report.
Farmed Sourced News
Aug 30, 20180 min read
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