Matt O’Brien
@mattoyeah.bsky.social
Associated Press technology reporter
A look at how Trump's AI data center expansion plan takes aim at the 55-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), by @melinawalling.bsky.social and @matthewdalyap.bsky.social apnews.com/article/nati...
With AI plan, Trump keeps chipping away at a foundational environmental law
When big infrastructure projects spring up, one crucial law — the National Environmental Policy Act — has for decades been a key way the government has required powerful industry interests to consider...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A look at how Trump's AI data center expansion plan takes aim at the 55-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), by @melinawalling.bsky.social and @matthewdalyap.bsky.social apnews.com/article/nati...
Coming to Cheyenne: An AI data center that will require more electricity than what's needed to power all Wyoming homes apnews.com/article/ai-a...
Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined
A massive AI data center proposed near Cheyenne, Wyoming, would use more electricity than all homes in the state combined.
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July 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Coming to Cheyenne: An AI data center that will require more electricity than what's needed to power all Wyoming homes apnews.com/article/ai-a...
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Trump's surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love
Trump surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love
President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms ...
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May 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Trump's surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love
Studio Ghibli has declined to comment apnews.com/article/stud...
ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns
Fans of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio behind “Spirited Away” and other beloved movies, were delighted this week when a new version of ChatGPT let them transform popular internet m...
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March 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Studio Ghibli has declined to comment apnews.com/article/stud...
OpenAI’s request for proposals makes no mention of whether it intends to prioritize renewable energy sources such as wind or solar to power the data centers, but a developer of the West Texas project says it will be heavily reliant on wind, with a gas-powered backup
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OpenAI looks across US for sites to build its Trump-backed Stargate AI data centers
OpenAI is scouring the U.S. for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states t...
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February 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
OpenAI’s request for proposals makes no mention of whether it intends to prioritize renewable energy sources such as wind or solar to power the data centers, but a developer of the West Texas project says it will be heavily reliant on wind, with a gas-powered backup
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I talked with the mayor of Abilene, Texas, future home of The Stargate Project apnews.com/article/star...
a pyramid in the middle of a desert with a spiral on it
ALT: a pyramid in the middle of a desert with a spiral on it
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January 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I talked with the mayor of Abilene, Texas, future home of The Stargate Project apnews.com/article/star...
Trump repealed Biden's signature AI executive order this week, though much of its work was already done apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump rescinds Biden's executive order on AI safety in attempt to diverge from his predecessor
Hours after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump made a symbolic mark on the future of artificial intelligence by repealing former President Joe Biden’s guardrails for the fast-develop...
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January 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Trump repealed Biden's signature AI executive order this week, though much of its work was already done apnews.com/article/trum...
A fascinating story about U.S. immigration policy but also a reminder of why it's always useful to keep on top of Irish politics in case there's a pop quiz apnews.com/article/immi...
Some immigrants are already leaving the US in 'self-deportations' as Trump's threats loom
A Nicaraguan woman staying legally in the United States has chosen to leave because of concern over President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign for mass deportations.
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January 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A fascinating story about U.S. immigration policy but also a reminder of why it's always useful to keep on top of Irish politics in case there's a pop quiz apnews.com/article/immi...
Heartbreaking firsthand account from colleague in Altadena apnews.com/article/cali...
He left his LA-area home to cover the wildfires. But the flames were barreling toward his front door
He left his Los Angeles-area home to cover the wildfires, but the flames were barreling toward his front door.
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January 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Heartbreaking firsthand account from colleague in Altadena apnews.com/article/cali...
Traveled to Rhode, Ireland (not to be confused with Rhode Iceland) to tell this story about the tech industry's global data center development apnews.com/article/ai-d...
Ireland embraced data centers that the AI boom needs. Now they're consuming too much of its energy
Dozens of massive data centers are consuming more electricity than all of the urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that brought them here.
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December 20, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Traveled to Rhode, Ireland (not to be confused with Rhode Iceland) to tell this story about the tech industry's global data center development apnews.com/article/ai-d...
Grateful to have had the chance to see Ustad Zakir Hussain when he came through Boston earlier this year www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Remembering the Prodigious, Trailblazing Legacy of Tabla Legend Zakir Hussain
Known to U.S. audiences for his work with George Harrison and the Dead, the late Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain had a much greater legacy.
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December 18, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Grateful to have had the chance to see Ustad Zakir Hussain when he came through Boston earlier this year www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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NEW from us: An October letter from DHS obtained exclusively by The Associated Press details how surveillance and AI tools help make life-altering decisions for immigrants, including whether they should be detained or surveilled: apnews.com/article/arti...
Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration
President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them...
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November 26, 2024 at 7:02 PM
NEW from us: An October letter from DHS obtained exclusively by The Associated Press details how surveillance and AI tools help make life-altering decisions for immigrants, including whether they should be detained or surveilled: apnews.com/article/arti...
AP's @marthabellisle.bsky.social went to talk to people in Issaquah about the powerful bomb cyclone storm and found ... Ben Gibbard apnews.com/video/ben-gi...
Death Cab singer: Seattle-area storm damage a 'sight to behold'
Death Cab for Cutie front man Ben Gibbard describes the destruction left by a powerful storm in the Seattle-area as a 'sight to behold' (AP video by Martha Bellisle)
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November 22, 2024 at 6:40 PM
AP's @marthabellisle.bsky.social went to talk to people in Issaquah about the powerful bomb cyclone storm and found ... Ben Gibbard apnews.com/video/ben-gi...
Trump's promise to repeal Biden's AI executive order was the mostly unaddressed elephant in the room (a very nice room) in an international gathering of government-backed AI safety institutes this week in San Francisco's Presidio. With @blanka.bsky.social apnews.com/article/ai-s...
US gathers allies to talk AI safety as Trump's vow to undo Biden's AI policy overshadows their work
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to repeal President Joe Biden’s signature artificial intelligence policy when he returns to the White House for a second term.
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November 22, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Trump's promise to repeal Biden's AI executive order was the mostly unaddressed elephant in the room (a very nice room) in an international gathering of government-backed AI safety institutes this week in San Francisco's Presidio. With @blanka.bsky.social apnews.com/article/ai-s...
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November 22, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Training an AI model takes a lot of GPUs. Then comes another stage: AI inference. Does that need its own chips too? apnews.com/article/ai-i...
Nvidia rivals focus on building a different kind of chip to power AI products
Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialized computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which dominates the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom.
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November 22, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Training an AI model takes a lot of GPUs. Then comes another stage: AI inference. Does that need its own chips too? apnews.com/article/ai-i...