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Driven by the rise of AI and the race to build the infrastructure powering it, the data center boom, previously housed in urban areas, has arrived in rural America.
In December, the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his office would begin rolling out the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program funding. But rural health advocates are divided on what it will mean for rural communities.
Policy changes, training programs, and adjusted pay for family child care providers are some of the solutions developed through collaboration between nonprofits and state and local governments across rural communities.
Health care experts and practitioners alike worry that explicit language preventing the use of the program funds to prevent rural hospitals from closing is a death sentence to many of the facilities already struggling to stay open.
