What the Eco-Yotta, SUNY Oneonta Memorandum of Understanding Says
By ERIC SANTOMAURO-STENZELONEONTA
Eco-Yotta Inc., the developer for a proposed AI research center in the Town of Oneonta, and SUNY Oneonta signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this year. AllOtsego has obtained it and published it below [click on the link at the bottom to download the full document]. Eco-Yotta signed in May, SUNY Oneonta in July
The MOU refers to Eco-Yotta interchangeably as “Data Center.” Section 2 discusses the focus of the university and company’s collaboration. Included in the list are workforce development for data center management and AI, related academic programming, data infrastructure and energy efficiency research, resource sharing between the entities, “fostering an ecosystem for startups, technology-driven businesses, and innovation hubs,” and more. The document does not mention agriculture.
Eco-Yotta sought to distance itself from descriptions as a “data center” since their first proposal this spring, which included that language, drew widespread community opposition. They have accused the town of omitting from meeting minutes portions of their comments and presentation from spring and summer meetings that discussed agriculture.
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