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In the tiny rural town of Crowell, Texas, residents now face permanent artificial daylight at night due to a large data center. It operates with intense 24/7 lighting that generates a powerful glow a lot of noise Similar concerns about noise and environmental impacts have surfaced near other sites across the country. AI is destroying the rural small towns

"44 percent of polled Gen Z workers said they’re “sabotaging their company’s AI strategy in at least one way,” Link👇

Freshly assembled Figure's F.03 humanoid can now walk autonomously from the manufacturing line straight to headquarters. Navigates stairs using only its onboard camera feeds—no LiDAR, no pre-mapped floors. The full locomotion policy was trained end-to-end with reinforcement learning entirely in simulation, then transferred zero-shot to the physical robot. Watch its depth perception in action as it handles stair navigation. The colorful reconstruction is how neural networks infer geometry from cameras, though some jitter in scale and artifacts around windows are visible.

1X really does have good design taste. And here the CEO tells us how a home robot should be shipped. He’s 100% correct.

Many people do not seem to want data centres built near them, despite the fact that they don't cause that much traffic and often generate a lot of local tax revenue. I suspect it's partly because they're ugly! My proposal: