Tech companies are turning to HBCUs to host AI data centers
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Tech companies are turning to HBCUs to host AI data centers

2026-06-24

Big Tech is looking for land to build its AI data centers. HBCUs are looking for new funding after federal cuts.


And partnerships between them, like one announced by Fisk University, could be a mutually beneficial — or could end up being a form of "digital sharecropping," according to strategist Ashley Northington, who wrote about this for Tech Policy Press.

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