AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoSupercomputing: A lawsuit by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research has put a potential transfer of Cheyenne’s National Center for Atmospheric Research supercomputing center on hold. The facility supports advanced geoscience research. Data Centers: Google is pushing ahead with plans for a $17 billion Wyoming data center, as lawmakers weigh how new facilities could affect water use. Critical Minerals: American Rare Earths has begun pilot work to turn ore from its Halleck Creek deposit into neodymium-praseodymium metal, a key material for magnets. Wyoming Research: UW researchers are working with ranchers to test GPS tags that could help detect livestock predation; Colorado and Wyoming researchers are also using AI to forecast destructive hailstorms earlier. Wildlife Science: Biologists detected the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in Yellowstone bats for the first time, finding it on 28 little brown bats.
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