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July 15, 2024
Trust in Science by Political Leaning: Tech Companies
July 15, 2024
Trust in Science by Political Leaning: Drug Companies
July 11, 2024
Why So Many Americans Are Losing Trust in Science
CTSE Director M. Anthony Mills discusses the declining trust in science and related areas across American demographics. He dismisses the commonly identified causes and instead attributes this recent trend in American politics to a sociological theory.
July 11, 2024
Data Center Electricity Use II: How Are Electrons Like Fish?
Growing data center energy use continues to make headlines. In my first post on data center electricity use, I focused on the technologies that make AI possible and on broad trends in data center investment and electricity demand forecasts out to 2028. If you subscribe to The Dispatch, they had a very good AI energy use…
July 11, 2024
BTOS Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS) AI Supplement
The Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS) now includes a number of AI-related questions under the AI supplement, which recently reported their first findings. The AI supplement was constructed to gather insights on the prevalence of AI use in businesses, the various types of AI being employed, the effects of AI on employment, and the ways…
July 11, 2024
The Refs Are Working Us
“Not true, Governor Romney.” President Barack Obama, widely considered to have lost his first debate against Mitt Romney thirteen days previously, was eager to defend his record. But Romney, having returned to familiar territory, was unwilling to concede the point. “In the last four years,” Romney had said, “you cut permits and licenses on federal…
July 9, 2024
ACES Robotics (Capitalized Expenditures for Robotic Equipment)
Beginning in 2018, the Census added a series of questions to their Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) to better understand how much companies are spending on robotic equipment. The Census defines robot equipment broadly, as “automatically controlled and reprogrammable machines capable of performing a series of complex tasks autonomously or semi-autonomously.” Included in this spending data are…
July 9, 2024