Gretchen Peck of Editor & Publisher interviewed Todd Bishop of Geekwire in Seattle about covering technology.
Peck writes, “With two of the largest cloud companies, Amazon and Microsoft, based in the Pacific Northwest, cloud technology has been a hot coverage topic. Recently, AI became top-of-mind for the newsroom, led by Editor Taylor Soper.
“‘One of the things we’ve been tracking closely, or as much as we can, is the changing influence of technology in Washington, D.C. — and technology leadership, in particular,’ Bishop said. ‘The inauguration is just one example where we saw a certain selection of tech executives. In some ways, I think [they were] people who represented technology writ large with Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. … It’s fascinating to see just how integral tech is as part of the national conversation. It feels like data centers and AI capacity have become the prize for the Trump administration in much the same way manufacturing facilities had been in Trump’s first term.’
“Tech is also front and center at statehouses. Bishop pointed to Washington state, where the governor assembled a data center task force to look at the tradeoffs of expanding data centers — their impact on energy and the environment.”
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