governance policy

On a winter evening in Wisconsin, a reader found herself outraged — and, more quietly, betrayed — when an AI summary posted at the top of a search returned a sunset time that was off by roughly six hours. That small error, recounted by columnist Frydenlund, cut to the heart of a growing cultural...

Microsoft’s push to plant 15 more datacenter campuses in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, underscores a sobering paradox at the heart of the AI boom: hyperscalers promise local economic benefits and technological leadership while quietly reshaping the environmental and infrastructure footprints of...