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Amazon vows to invest $1 billion in areas where it builds data centers

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Amazon's cloud computing division on Friday announced a new effort to temper opposition to data centers in some U.S. communities, while saying the U.S. "can't afford to lose" the race to dominate artificial intelligence globally.

The tech giant pledged to invest an additional $1 billion over five years in the communities where it builds data centers, the facilities that power AI, on top of existing commitments. Amazon said the money will go toward education, job training, energy affordability, and water and energy preservation, and also fund other local priorities.

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USThe Guardian

Boston mass transit authorities flap around for solution to pigeon menace

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority are now pondering on setting trained falcons on the urban birds The mass transit authorities in the greater Boston region are clawing around for ways to mitigate the excessive local pigeon population – or more graphically, pigeon poo all over stations – and have swooped on the possibility of setting trained falcons on them. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), the public system commonly known as ‘the T’, issued a “ request for information ” (RFI) last month from falconry experts on the…

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