Snohomish County Tribune
The Snohomish School District offers 18 career and technical education pathways, and its worksite learning program gives students CTE credit for supervised paid work. This opinion piece argues local employers should carry that learn-by-doing model into jobs exposed to AI.
The Daily Herald
Snohomish County PUD will hold a ribbon-cutting September 19 for its $2.5 million community solar facility at Walter E. Hall Park on Casino Road in south Everett, largely paid for by state grants. The array produces about 400,000 kilowatt hours a year and has operated since December 2024; power-sale revenue, about $40,000 so far, goes to the PUD's Community Energy Fund for bill assistance.
Snohomish County Tribune
All but one person who testified at the county's hearing on its data center moratorium opposed allowing data centers, and more residents submitted written comments in opposition. The council set the six-month moratorium on data centers in unincorporated areas in late June; one Arlington-area resident urged the council not to trade the county's farms, forests and homes for data centers.
The Daily Herald
About 13 people spoke at the Snohomish County Council's public hearing on its six-month moratorium on new data center development in unincorporated areas. Most supported the moratorium and some called for a permanent ban; Council member Nate Nehring said permanent regulation will take several months and anticipated extending the pause to a full year.
Lynnwood Times
The Snohomish County Council scheduled a public hearing for 10:30 a.m. August 19 in Everett on Emergency Ordinance 26-026, the six-month moratorium it adopted unanimously on June 24. The ordinance pauses applications for data centers of 2 megawatts or greater in all zones of unincorporated Snohomish County and expires December 25 unless renewed.
Everett Post
Greater Everett Chamber of Commerce CEO Wendy Poischbeg reports that aerospace and defense companies at the Farnborough Air Show stressed human workers stay essential as AI spreads through aviation. The piece cites a Gallup poll finding 47 percent of adults aged 18 to 29 believe AI does more harm than good, up from 36 percent in 2025, and points to training programs at Paine Field, AM-TEC, and WSU Everett.
Boro Software
Everett-based Boro Software shipped Shopboard, a job tracker for small machine shops: operators log Start and Done on a floor tablet, and the office gets a live board, a digital traveler per job, and reports on late jobs and actual costs. The company credits agentic development for the delivery speed and is recruiting a small group of founding shops to run it on live work at discounted pricing.
Boro Software
Boro Software's post-mortem on porting freediag, roughly 30,000 lines of C, to Rust in a week with Claude Code agents on a 20x Max plan: the Rust build was validated against the C executable's replay harnesses rather than real cars, and the ported source is public under the original license.
Boro Software
Everett's Boro Software tunes its Claude Code agent workflow on freediag, an open-source OBD-II diagnostics tool in aging C: tickets get labeled by difficulty and model, weaker models' work is adversarially reviewed by stronger ones, and concurrent agents are capped at 4 to 6 to control cost.
Boro Software
Everett's Boro Software argues AI magnifies both good and bad development practice while human decision-making stays the bottleneck: workers hit cognitive limits faster in AI-assisted workflows, and whether that ends in burnout depends on management giving them room to think.
KNKX
A civic assembly of 29 randomly selected Snohomish County residents met over three spring weekends at WSU Everett to work out how county government should use AI, producing 35 recommendations on transparency, accountability, privacy, environmental impact, and human oversight. County councilmembers say they will consider adopting the recommendations into law.
Lynnwood Times
Snohomish County Council member Nate Nehring explains the council's unanimous June 24 vote to pause data center development in unincorporated Snohomish County for six months, extendable to twelve, while the county writes a permanent policy.
HeraldNet
The Snohomish County Council voted unanimously for an emergency moratorium pausing new data center development in unincorporated Snohomish County for six months while it writes a permanent policy. The ordinance requires a public hearing within 60 days and can be renewed for another six months.
UW Bothell News
UW Bothell's School of Business adds graduate AI coursework and an undergraduate Business Analytics and AI concentration in fall 2026, building on a quarterly AI speaker series running since fall 2025. Dean Sophie Leroy is weaving AI through the curriculum.
The Daily Herald
The Daily Herald's editorial board argues Snohomish County should keep data centers away from its water supply during a drought that left state snowpack at 53 percent of median in April. It cites Skagit County's June 1 moratorium on new data centers, a proposed Seattle moratorium, and Arlington's Project Cascade, a roughly 1.2 million-square-foot facility Amazon confirmed as a delivery-support project requesting 9.5 megawatts and about 44,000 gallons of water a day.
425 Business
Everett-based Helion raised a $465 million Series G round led by Thrive Capital, bringing total invested capital to $1.5 billion at a $15.5 billion valuation. The money goes to commercial deployment and manufacturing capacity as the company builds its first fusion power plant, Orion, in Malaga in Central Washington, targeted for 2028.
The Daily Herald
Snohomish County PUD fielded eight large-load service inquiries in 2025, double its previous average of about four a year, with requests ranging from 3.5 to 150 megawatts; none so far are data centers. The utility generates about 6 percent of the power its customers use, buys the rest from the Bonneville Power Administration, and requires developers to pay infrastructure costs upfront under its growth-pays-for-growth model.
Lynnwood Times
Everett-based Zap Energy named Zabrina Johal, formerly of AtkinsRéalis and General Atomics, its CEO as the company combines near-term compact modular fission with its long-term fusion work. Cofounder Benj Conway moves to President.
The Daily Herald
The Daily Herald's editorial board backs Snohomish County's plan to convene a civic assembly of about 40 randomly selected residents over three weekends in April and May 2026 to draft recommendations on county government's use of AI. The county council voted 3-1 in July 2025 to use the process; invitation letters go out to residents in late February.
Snohomish County Tribune
SNO911 answers Snohomish County's non-emergency line with Ava, an AI assistant built by Seattle firm Aurelian that handled more than 180,000 calls in its first 12 months, including 2,500 in 48 hours during the November 2024 windstorm. A second tool, Cora, now assists 911 dispatchers in real time with location lookup and agency procedures.
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