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Energy & Carbon Efficiency 1 Reports

Water Usage & Circularity 1 Reports

Heat Reuse & Grid Sharing 0 Reports

STEM & Education Outreach 1 Reports

Noise & Acoustic Buffers 0 Reports

Post-Quantum Security 0 Reports

Quantum Shielding & Isolation 0 Reports

Accord Standards Compliance 0 Reports

Cryogenic & Thermal Management 0 Reports

Traffic & Construction Logistics 0 Reports

Land Use & Zoning 0 Reports

Air Quality & Emissions 0 Reports

Local Jobs & Workforce 0 Reports

Emergency Preparedness 0 Reports

Public Reporting & Transparency 0 Reports

Grid Reliability & Utility Costs 0 Reports

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“In the generative AI age, technology can certainly assist with information retrieval, reminders, prompts, and all those good things, but we can’t really use it to replace that sense of community.”

CATHERINE TUCKER MIT Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management With gratitude to Professor Tucker for allowing me to feature this quote.

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Infrastructure and community resilience

When I first started noticing these problems around data centers—the noise, power lines, cooling, and strain on the grid—I didn’t jump straight to quantum computing. I tried to understand what was happening from a systems perspective and connected it to what I was learning in class. Physics helped me think about energy flows and how systems scale. Calculus and statistics helped me see how these problems could be modeled as optimization problems involving rates of change and many variables. Chemistry helped me consider materials, heat transfer, and cooling at a physical level. As I researched applied math and physics-based optimization, I became interested in how quantum computing might help explore complex problems.

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