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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Herb Zien, vice chair of LiquidCool Solutions, the company that has proposed to build Maine’s first data center for artificial intelligence at the former Loring Air Force Base. The center will cool its servers by immersing them in dielectric fluid, which promises to use less water than is typical of air-cooled data centers.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Graham Platner has 11,000 volunteers to take on Janet Mills and Susan Collins. Organizing them will be another challenge for the political newcomer who has risen quickly in a crowded field of Democratic candidates.
Health insurers in Maine are cutting back Medicare Advantage plans. It’s not clear yet how many Mainers will be affected, or if some counties will see more cuts than others as has happened elsewhere in New England.
Bangor’s public health nurses will remain funded for at least two years. The new funding comes as a concession after the state said in August that it would take over those services.
Houlton is reckoning with its recent town government shakeup. The Aroostook County town of 6,000 has recently seen its town manager arrested and its Town Council crippled by a string of resignations.
Here’s how the technology at Maine’s first AI data center will work. The relatively new immersion cooling promises to use less water than the technology used at other types of data centers.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Janet Mills raises $1M in first 24 hours of her Senate campaign
- Graham Platner has raised $500K since Janet Mills joined the Senate race
- Former Lewiston police chief nominated for US marshal post
- Part of Bangor’s Hammond Street will be closed today for sewer repair
- There will be no parking on this downtown Bangor street on Friday
- New president takes helm of Northern Light Health
- UMaine will test its emergency alert system next Wednesday
- 2 remaining Houlton councilors appoint new members after others quit over town manager’s arrest
- Down East coastal farmhouse once owned by town founder’s descendants for sale
- Half of Southwest Harbor homes may sit empty part of the year
- Former Central Maine Catholic school to reopen as pre-K-8
- Man charged with kidnapping after police find missing Maine teen
- It’s a good week to be a UMaine cross country runner
- UMaine defenseman has strong return to ice after 19-month recovery from knee injury
- UMaine hockey faces stiff test in battle of top 10 teams at Quinnipiac
- Former Celtics champ calls Cooper Flagg ‘the white version of LeBron James’
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Our institutions of higher education must maintain their independence, which means rejecting attempts by the federal government to control their decision-making.”
Opinion: Maine colleges should reject Trump administration pressure tactics
LIFE IN MAINE
Some of the reasons birds are so noisy this fall might surprise you.
A midcoast company is rereleasing a vintage T-shirt after Taylor Swift was seen wearing one.
The last of Maine’s fall foliage is turning.