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Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was on NPR\u2019s High Plains Public Radio discussing a proposed rural Kansas data center. Professor Scanlan contextualized how the lack of resource demand disclosure and regional- and state-level planning for AI-data center development can disempower local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the piece at High Plains Public Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the Center\u2019s AI-data center policy recommendations in our Legislative Model<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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