What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town?
Excellent explainer on data centers @stpp-um.bsky.social to help communities understand them, their challenges, and policy options to manage their risks. Written by Terry Nguyen BA '25 @umfordschool.bsky.social and @benzevgreen.bsky.social, in partnership w/ Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition.
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What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town?
States and AI companies tout data centers as a boon for local economies, but what's the reality? This policy brief reviews the evidence: data centers are harmful for the environment and tax breaks are a bad deal for communities. @stpp-um.bsky.social
stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/research/pol...
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Broadening Horizons: How STEM-in-Society Programs Train Socially Responsible Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Leaders
Do you train students--including scientists and engineers--how to think about the ethical, social, political, and policy dimensions of their work? Check out @stpp-um.bsky.social's new report, which includes recommendations on how these programs can be cultivated. And come to our webinar on April 10!
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Hello, Bluesky! We're excited to join the conversations here about science and technology policy, STS, innovation, and cats.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet's most pressing problems.
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The National Fair Housing Alliance is the only national organization dedicated solely to ending discrimination in housing and lending.
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The Great Lakes are pretty cool. We work to protect them + the waters and people in-between. Learn more at cleanwater.org/MI
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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Managing director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at UMich. Tech policy, abolition, bicycles, libraries, cats.
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