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So went the prohibition on artificial intelligence in Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel “Dune,” and what was then a datum of fictional world-building is now a real and pressing concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Moving in tandem through a sequence of points, the team builds up a series of height marks relative to a known baseline, or datum.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2019

Researchers rate each datum for accuracy, using a system developed by SFEI.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2019

This month, as the movie neared completion, he caught a numerical error in one of its graphics, a missing handful of zeros in one particular datum.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2017

No plural form is necessary, and the old singular, datum, can be left to the Romans.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

“Even if growth in data center decelerates slightly next year,” the analysts said Texas Instruments’ total revenue should be able to grow by about 20%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Nscale’s initial public offering would aim to capitalize on a wave of investor interest in companies providing data centers and the land and power necessary for them to operatem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

On Friday, although the S&P 500 closed up 0.2%, nearly two-thirds of its component stocks declined, according to FactSet data.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Own the land, the power, the data center, the chips and the software,” Payne wrote in a letter included in the filing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

And I didn’t want to forget my scientific data.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller