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• Meet Eaves and CORI, the new AI search tools that are taking ASCE to a new level

  ASCE's two new artificial intelligence assistants will help members find answers in the Society’s extensive technical resources and from advice shared by other members. Here's where to find them.

• Tensions mount as data centers eye ‘sleepy’ Michigan farm towns

  In a deal that shocked residents with its speed, the small farming community of Saline Township is set to host Michigan’s first hyperscale data center, three buildings the size of 28 football fields.

• It’s World Toilet Day: Why ‘we’ll always need the toilet’

  The 2025 World Toilet Day campaign, “We’ll Always Need the Toilet”, underscores a simple but urgent message. No matter how quickly the world changes, sanitation remains a constant need.

• Sustainability, returning ‘glory of nature’ key as Taiwan rebuilds coast after 2023 typhoon

  A new master plan, called Nature Rocks, emphasizes lookout points to allow people to appreciate the area’s natural beauty as it rebounds from devastating damage.

• Acting FEMA administrator resigns

  Saying he stepped up to fill the role when others would not, acting Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator David Richardson resigned Monday after six months on the job.

• Study debunks major myth: AI’s energy usage is significantly less than feared

  Energy consumption in the U.S. is changing how people perceive the environmental risks associated with artificial intelligence.