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NDUS and Dakota Digital Academy push for state AI strategy and low‑cost compute
Summary
NDUS and Dakota Digital Academy leaders urged legislators to fund a coordinated AI strategy, create a Dakota AI Collaborative and negotiate access to low‑cost data‑center compute to support workforce, research and state services.
The North Dakota University System and the Dakota Digital Academy outlined a state-focused AI strategy and urged the Appropriations Committee to consider funding to build a "Dakota AI Collaborative," increase affordable compute capacity and align workforce training with AI and digitization.
"We want to be in front of that train and not run over by that train," said Todd Pringle, director of the Dakota Digital Academy, describing why the task force that studied AI recommended a coordinated, state-level approach.
Pringle told the committee the task force identified three primary outcomes: develop critical mass of AI talent across campuses and state agencies,…
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