Notre Dame, IN30+ days ago
The University of Notre Dame invites applications for a cohort of up to three outstanding Postdoctoral Research Fellows to join a dynamic, interdisciplinary team undertaking a spatially explicit, contextually informed, and justice-centered assessment of the strategies and resources - including power, water, land, health, and workforce infrastructure - needed to inform current decision-making about data centers in Indiana and the Midwest in the near term and design the data centers of the future. Early activities will likely include, but are not limited to: Use of large language models and AI techniques to support data collection, synthesis, analysis, and construction of a modeling platform for key resource current and potential future demands, including electricity, water, land, and physical infrastructure; Data collection, analysis, and modeling for capturing social, economic, workforce, and health considerations, with particular emphasis on distributional effects, justice, and participatory methods; Policy analysis at the local, state, and federal levels.