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A new analysis shows more than two-thirds of data centers built 鈥� or in development 鈥� since 2022 are in drought-prone areas, including parts of the Mountain West. Experts warn this could strain water supplies for cities and farmers.

Consumer alert urges conversations at home and caution online as AI tools mimic friendship and spread disturbing content.

The law takes effect in less than a year, but efforts to update it seem to have stalled out, at least for now.

Legislators failed to make revisions or to come up with a plan to keep a first-in-the-nation AI law that's been derided by tech companies from taking effect early next year.

Senate Bill 318 was tabled after consensus on the tweaks couldn鈥檛 be reached among the tech industry, consumer advocates and lawmakers. Colorado鈥檚 controversial AI law goes into effect Feb. 1, but a special session may be in the works.

In an era of artificial intelligence and cloud computing, data centers are an important part of the economy. Some Colorado lawmakers say the state needs more of them 鈥� and that they could generate jobs and tax revenue. But data centers also consume huge amounts of energy and water. So do the future benefits outweigh the costs? We dig into that question on In The NoCo.

The National Science Foundation, which is managed by the federal government, recently canceled funding for hundreds of research projects. One of those programs, designed by a professor at CU, would have used social media to teach young people about how artificial intelligence works. But the grant proposal contained the word 鈥渕isinformation鈥� -- and the professor thinks that鈥檚 why the project was killed.

The state's laws on revenge porn and child sex abuse materials don鈥檛 currently include deepfakes. A new bill would change that.

With the Trump administration making sweeping cuts to staff and research grants at science-related agencies, artificial intelligence could offer a tempting way to keep labs going, but scientists say there are limits to the technology鈥檚 uses.

The Trump administration wants to speed up data center construction to support the rise of the artificial intelligence industry.