Intellectual property comes in several kinds, and public argument about AI has settled on one of them. Copyright covers expression, which is where the fight over training data has taken place. Patents cover inventions, granting twenty years from filing in exchange for disclosing how the invention works. Trademarks cover the signs that tell a customer […]
In late 2025 and early 2026, communities in Arizona were mobilising against data center expansion, filing lawsuits, packing town halls, and pressuring state legislators to end tax incentives for facilities that would draw hundreds of millions of gallons a year from local water supplies. In Virginia, a community group that had already voted out town […]