AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoAI & Rural Power: A new survey highlights how data centers—key to AI—raise rural worries about farmland loss, electricity costs, and water use, even as they can bring tax revenue. Quantum Funding: Qolab, a superconducting quantum computing startup with Wisconsin ties via WARF, closed a $54.2M Series B to push toward fault-tolerant systems. Public Safety & Security: Waukesha is moving ahead with $319,000 for City Hall security upgrades after threats to staff. AI Governance: Wisconsin lawmakers are uniting to defend the state’s authority to regulate AI training, warning federal preemption could freeze local rules. Health Watch: Heat appears linked to a spike in opioid overdoses in Madison, while a parasite outbreak (cyclosporiasis) is spreading across multiple states. Tech in the Real World: A Milwaukee teacher is fighting declining U.S. history education with hands-on America 250 lessons. Local Infrastructure: Milwaukee County’s courthouse overhaul price tag has doubled to about $897M.
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