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As artificial intelligence becomes more common in our daily lives, Texas could soon have more AI data centers than any other state. “There’s this great race right now,” said Michael Thomas, CEO of ...

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Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...