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 material 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 content center fueled by increasing AI enhancement will take its place filling the economic gap left by the impending retirement of Xcel s coal plant In recent days laid-off janitors are accusing Hennepin County of age discrimination Sahan Journal reports A multitude 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 atypical the amount of employees that were not retained SEIU Local political director Samantha Diaz informed Sahan The county should have to answer for that Hyperlocal weather content is crucial for farmers Soon northwestern Minnesota s Marshall and Pennington counties will have access to real-time environmental figures 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 pupil improvement Lynsey Huseth strategic marketing and communications director informed 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