Ohio State News

Anthropic, who owns Claude AI, physically cut apart millions of purchased books while building a private digital library and other major AI companies are tied primarily to digital collections obtained from shadow libraries, research datasets or earlier scanning programs. Court records confirm that at least one major artificial-intelligence company purchased millions of physical books, removed their bindings, cut apart their pages, scanned them and discarded the paper original

Large, mostly windowless buildings are appearing on development plans across Ohio. Inside them are thousands of computers that store information, run websites, process business records and increasingly power artificial-intelligence systems. ​ Commercial project tracking currently identifies more than 100 planned data-center facilities in Ohio, although exact totals vary because one campus may contain several separately counted buildings and some proposals may never be complet