How a Minnesota city’s future depends on an AI gold rush

Becker a town of about in central Minnesota was supposed to host Amazon s multibillion-dollar figures center but the Seattle-based tech giant abruptly halted its plans during a fight over state regulations making the project the latest promising business venture to flame out in Becker The Minnesota Star Tribune reports Now the city is holding out hope that another input center fueled by increasing AI expansion will take its place filling the economic gap left by the impending retirement of Xcel s coal plant In the last few days laid-off janitors are accusing Hennepin County of age discrimination Sahan Journal reports A great number of of the affected workers come from immigrant backgrounds according to their union and were laid off when the county switched to a new janitorial services contractor It is incredibly remarkable the amount of employees that were not retained SEIU Local political director Samantha Diaz notified Sahan The county should have to answer for that Hyperlocal weather input is crucial for farmers Soon northwestern Minnesota s Marshall and Pennington counties will have access to real-time environmental information including air temperature rainfall dew point and soil moisture for the first time MPR News Reports The University of Minnesota Crookston may see its highest enrollment year ever this year New programs and national rankings could be another reason for aspirant rise Lynsey Huseth strategic marketing and communications director stated The Grand Forks Herald The last peak in enrollment the campus witnessed was just under students during the - school year Who decides what happiness is Apparently it s the personal finance site WalletHub and for the past two years they ve ranked Minnesota amongst in their annual list of top ten happiest states But no longer Bring Me the News reports that this year Minnesota sits at th The post How a Minnesota city s future depends on an AI gold rush appeared first on MinnPost