How many digital health conferences start with the same tired promise: “We just need to digitalize everything and health data quality will magically improve.” After reviewing PATH’s comprehensive assessment of primary health care data systems across Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria, I can tell you that this Silicon Valley-inspired narrative is dangerously wrong.
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Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has quit RE100, the global corporate initiative whose members commit to using 100% renewable electricity. That’s because Meta is bankrolling a fleet of new gas-fired power plants to fuel its expanding AI data centers.
A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI data centre in New Carlisle, Indiana, US
An anti-artificial intelligence rally in Saskatoon drew in a big crowd to Kinsmen Park on Sunday, providing a platform for people opposed to the construction of a data centre just outside Regina.
AI systems are generating new categories of data that challenge traditional SaaS contract definitions, creating potential disputes between vendors and customers over ownership and usage rights. As synthetic data, embeddings, and vector databases emerge from AI processes, existing contractual frameworks for anonymised and aggregated data may prove inadequate to address the commercial, legal, and regulatory…
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming a defining force in the global economy, with the technology expected to add almost $16 trillion to global GDP by 2030. Yet Africa accounts for less than 1 per cent of global data centre capacity, despite being home to nearly a fifth of the world’s population. As governments and investors…