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How Iowa is learning to trust — or not trust — AI
9+ hour, 34+ min ago (1101+ words) For years, Dr. Simon Wright, a facial reconstruction trauma surgeon, has reconstructed facial bones by bending and molding titanium plates by hand to the injured area. It's a time-consuming and often erroneous process. The manual work has now been replaced…...
An Iowa plant shreds 30,000 tons of retired blades a year into fiber for concrete, and the glass inside those blades is the grade that cement chemistry is known to attack
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (756+ words) A plant floor in eastern Iowa, and a bulk sack of white fiber that used to be a wind turbine. The blade came down after two decades over farmland, was cut into sections and trucked in. No furnace touched it....
Peosta city leaders interested in extending data center moratorium
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (169+ words) Community members pack a Peosta City Council work session over the city's data center ordinance on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. PEOSTA, Iowa — City leaders in Peosta said they plan to extend their moratorium on data center development by six months. That’s just…...
Iowa group claims Alliant hiding true cost of adding data center power
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1073+ words) An Iowa business group is pushing back on Alliant Energy's plan to invest in additional power plants, saying everyday customers could get saddled with billions in costs for generating capacity intended mainly to serve data centers in Iowa. Iowa Business…...
Data center opponents lambast City Council
1+ week, 5+ day ago (165+ words) Data center opponents lashed out at Clinton City Council members and the mayor Tuesday night, a day before a second scheduled workshop session on a zoning ordinance. Celeste Robbins, seated next to Stephen Figg, representing Clintonians Against Data Centers, speaks…...
Classroom Clinic steadily expanding telehealth services to Iowa schools
2+ week, 4+ day ago (581+ words) Lisa Rossi | Sep 4, 2026 | 6:00 am | Allen Bierbaum met Sue Gehling, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, in January 2023 as part of a VentureNet review panel when she was applying for a loan from the Iowa Economic Development Authority. He learned of her story…...
Data center to cover all energy upgrades, utility official says
2+ week, 4+ day ago (196+ words) A common concern about data centers is how they will affect electric bills and whether they will cause shortages, also known as brownouts. Utility and data center company representatives addressed the issues on Tuesday. Pictured from left at Tuesday's special…...
LETTER: Sept. 1 data center meeting important
3+ week, 3+ day ago (159+ words) I want to thank Mayor Scott Maddaison for advocating an open meeting where citizens of Clinton and members of City Council have a public discussion regarding the data center ordinance. The proposed hyperscale data center by QTS is the largest…...
LETTER: Looking forward to data center meetings
3+ week, 3+ day ago (195+ words) Thank you to Mayor Scott Maddasion and Clinton City Council members for arranging upcoming meetings to review and discuss the proposed data center ordinance. Our small group meeting at the Lyons Branch Library on Aug. 3, held at the request of…...