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A Louisiana state senator, John “Jay” Morris, is under scrutiny for potential ethics violations related to Meta's massive Hyperion datacenter project. Morris, a Republican attorney, played a key role in advancing the datacenter by lobbying a utility regulator, cosponsoring legislation for the land deal, and voting for tax breaks estimated at $3.3 billion. Simultaneously, Morris and his business partners were involved in buying and selling land surrounding the datacenter site, including hundreds of acres sold to Entergy for a power plant to supply the datacenter. Experts suggest these actions may violate state ethics laws prohibiting officials from benefiting financially from their public roles. AI

A Louisiana senator is under scrutiny for allegedly using his political influence to facilitate Meta's largest data center construction while simultaneously engaging in land deals around the project. Senator John 'Jay' Morris reportedly aided Meta's Hyperion data center development in Richland Parish for over two years. An investigation revealed that Morris and his business partners acquired and sold land adjacent to the data center site over the last 15 months. AI

Researchers have developed SpectralEarth-FM, a new foundation model designed to process and fuse hyperspectral imagery with other Earth observation data like multispectral, radar, and temperature readings. This model utilizes a hierarchical transformer architecture that can handle varying spectral dimensions and integrates a cross-sensor fusion module. To train SpectralEarth-FM, a large dataset called SpectralEarth-MM was curated, containing over 40TB of co-located data from multiple satellite sensors, enabling state-of-the-art results on downstream tasks. AI