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Compass Datacenters Commits Over $110,500 to Shade the El Mirage YMCA’s Outdoor Court

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Permanent shade for the kids and families of the Northwest Valley Family YMCA – the community’s most-requested park amenity.

EL MIRAGE, Ariz., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In partnership with the Northwest Valley Family YMCA, Compass Datacenters is funding a permanent shade structure over the outdoor basketball court, turning the branch’s largest outdoor space into one that El Mirage families can use year-round. The El Mirage City Council approved the contract with Shade N’ Net on June 16, and construction is expected to be complete by the end of the year.

At 98 feet by 60 feet, the structure covers a hard-surface court that the Arizona summer currently takes away for months at a time. By reducing heat buildup on the concrete, the shade unit keeps the space comfortable for school‑age programs and after‑school practices. Without it, those practices get pushed into the evening, and families who can’t make a late session miss out.

The investment reflects Compass’s 100-year neighbor philosophy, which commits the company to the long-term wellbeing of the communities where it operates. Compass is developing a campus in El Mirage, which is the start of a decades-long presence in the city.

“On behalf of the City of El Mirage, I want to thank Compass Datacenters for their generous support of the new shade structure at the Northwest Valley YMCA basketball court, which will enhance the comfort and safety of the families and young athletes who use this space every day,” said El Mirage Mayor Alexis Hermosillo. “As a new business preparing to join our community, Compass Datacenters is already making a meaningful impact. This partnership reflects the positive synergy amongst our businesses, nonprofits and the City. We are grateful for Compass Datacenters’ commitment to El Mirage and are excited to welcome them as a community partner.”

The donation funds a shade structure that residents had requested. In the City’s 2025 Parks and Recreation Master Plan Community Survey, El Mirage residents ranked shade areas as the highest-demand park amenity, ahead of every other request. The project also advances the Quality of Life goals in the City’s FY2026–2028 Strategic Plan, which commit El Mirage to strengthening community bonds, promoting health and wellness and expanding recreational opportunities across all neighborhoods – in part by upgrading parks and recreational spaces so they are safe, accessible and engaging.

Shade N’ Net, the City’s shade structure vendor, has recently completed six other shade structures across the El Mirage park system. The City will maintain the new structure as part of its management of the YMCA facility.

The project began with a question. Compass’ El Mirage campus shares a property line with the Northwest Valley Family YMCA, and upon breaking ground, Compass asked branch executive Mary Davis what her members needed most. Her answer was one word: shade. Davis had kept a shade structure on the branch’s wish list for all five years she has led the location, and the City’s Parks and Recreation Department and City Management team carried the project forward to Council.

“For months out of the year, we have a beautiful court that nobody can stand on,” said Mary Davis, [District Executive], Northwest Valley Family YMCA. “Come July, the concrete makes the decision for us. Coaches move practice into the dark, our preschoolers stay inside and a space built for this community sits empty. Shade changes that math. It gives us back the biggest outdoor space we have — for our members and for every family in El Mirage who walks through those gates.”

Covered, the court opens to programming the branch has never been able to hold there. Group fitness classes move outdoors. The full-day preschool, open from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and school-age programs get outdoor time for bikes, basketball and play. Community events gain a shaded gathering space for several hundred people, including the branch’s Trunk or Treat each October. The structure sits beside the branch’s already-covered pool deck, extending shade across the outdoor play space.

“Being a good neighbor starts when the first shovel hits the ground and continues long after ribbon cutting,” said AJ Byers, President of Compass Datacenters. “Our campuses are built to last a century, and so are our relationships with the communities around them. When the Northwest Valley Family YMCA told us shade would make a meaningful difference for the community, supporting the project was an easy decision.”

About the City of El Mirage

Incorporated on June 25, 1951, the City of El Mirage is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2026. The City is proud to serve as the Gateway to the West Valley of Phoenix. In addition to expanding its parks and recreation services, El Mirage remains committed to working with partners to strengthen regional and global connectivity, attract business development, and provide strategic access to key transportation corridors.

About the Northwest Valley Family YMCA

The Northwest Valley Family YMCA, at 12450 W. Cinnabar Ave. in El Mirage, is a branch of Valley of the Sun YMCA. It serves more than 4,300 memberships with youth sports, swim lessons, group fitness, teen programs, and licensed preschool and school-age care, and opens its facilities to the surrounding community.

About Compass

Compass Datacenters does data centers differently. The company develops and operates sustainable Class A, Community-First campuses guided by a 100-year neighbor philosophy that invests in the workforce, infrastructure, and well-being of every community it calls home. Backed by the institutional strength of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Brookfield Infrastructure and KKR, Compass delivers high-quality facilities at speed for the cloud and hyperscale customers driving today’s economy. By combining industrialized, prefabricated design with advanced hybrid cooling that uses no water during operations, responsible energy use, and zero-waste construction, Compass takes a more sustainable approach to digital infrastructure supporting the company’s built-to-last vision. The result is move-in ready capacity that scales efficiently and responsibly. Data Centers Done Differently.

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The Clean Energy Association of New Mexico Comments on the State Land Uranium Ban

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GRANTS, N.M., Sept. 23, 2026 /CNW/ — The Clean Energy Association of New Mexico (CLEAN) today expressed opposition to the Land Commission of the State of New Mexico’s Executive Order (“Order”) banning uranium exploration, development, and extraction on State lands.

CLEAN is disappointed by the Order, which, although limited in scope, runs counter to the economic and energy interests of New Mexico and its citizens. The Order only applies to State Lands and at a time when the State has not granted a new uranium lease on State lands in well over a decade. That said, this action continues to severely limit economic activity on State lands which would bring economic benefit, access to affordable and safe sources of domestic energy, and the opportunity to benefit from significant advances in environmentally responsible uranium extraction technology.

The timing and intent of restricting an economic activity which has evolved substantially over the past six decades is unfortunate. Many of the historic uranium-related legacy issues occurred approximately 60 years ago, before the implementation of the New Mexico Mining Act of 1993 and other modern safety, environmental, and operational standards.

It is misleading to compare any modern industry solely with the way it operated 60 years ago. Virtually every part of our economy has changed dramatically since then. Automotive manufacturing, air travel, energy production, construction, agriculture, and other industries now rely on technologies, safeguards, operating practices, and regulatory requirements that would have been unfamiliar six decades ago. The uranium industry and the companies that comprise it have undergone that same transformation.

“The United States is the world’s largest consumer of nuclear energy and the uranium that powers the reactors is over 90% sourced from outside the United States. The pursuit of cost-effective clean energy, and growing national security needs, has created a renewed demand for domestic uranium. This reality combined with strong domestic production potential provides New Mexico with the opportunity to be a leader in the United States,” said Janet Lee-Sheriff, President and Director of CLEAN. “This moment presents a strong economic opportunity for New Mexico, its citizens, and its communities due to the significant resources in the State. While we fully recognize that past practices created serious issues, today’s proven technologies–such as In-Situ Recovery (“ISR”) of uranium–provides safe and responsible options. New Mexico is a national leader in uranium resources, and this abundance combined with strong leadership, can create significant wealth and benefits for the State and its people when resources are developed properly. ISR can accomplish this while protecting the land, water, air, and people of New Mexico.”

CLEAN welcomes the opportunity to meet with communities, elected and regulatory officials, and community groups for healthy dialogue and information sharing. Constructive engagement and an understanding of modern uranium recovery practices are essential to sound decision-making about New Mexico’s energy and economic future.

About In-Situ Recovery Technology
In-Situ Recovery (“ISR”) offers a minimally intrusive, eco-friendly, and economically competitive approach to mineral extraction. It’s a proven, successful technique for extracting uranium, utilized in the United States in Texas, Nebraska and Wyoming. Unlike traditional mining, ISR utilizes wellfield technology to extract uranium from ISR-amenable, sandstone- hosted deposits. This technology is responsible for approximately 60% of all uranium extraction in the world. The NRC has stated that there has never been an incident of the contamination of drinking water from the ISR process.1

1Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (2008). Executive Director’s Response to Public Comment, Permit No. UR03070

About the Clean Energy Association of New Mexico
The Clean Energy Association of New Mexico (CLEAN) provides education, awareness, and innovative tools to support a strong and safe nuclear energy sector needed to fuel the U.S. nuclear renaissance. CLEAN advocates for responsible uranium extraction and recovery through in-situ recovery (“ISR”), working to build sustainable socio-economic benefits for local communities and the State while respecting the land, water, air, and people. CLEAN hosted the inaugural Nuclear in New Mexico conference in April 2026 and will host the 2nd annual conference in May 2027.

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Knowtion Health and Ghamut Launch Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Provider Revenue Cycle Management Solutions

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Collaboration advances Knowtion’s broader AI strategy to augment reimbursement recovery across the most complex post-claim revenue cycle challenges

BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Knowtion Health, a healthcare company specializing in complex revenue recovery for providers, today announced the launch of a strategic partnership with Ghamut Corporation, an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and development firm, to apply AI to the most complex revenue cycle challenges that require more than rules-based automation. The partnership starts with a targeted application of AI within the appeals process to support specialists as they navigate claims requiring complex review. This initiative represents the next step in expanding Knowtion’s use of AI across complex revenue cycle challenges.

The most challenging revenue cycle work rarely follows predictable, repeatable patterns. Specialists often must review lengthy medical records, payer policies, state and federal regulatory rules and clinical guidelines before determining how to proceed. To address this challenge, Knowtion’s solutions team identified opportunities to deploy AI to augment the support available to specialists and defined how the technology should work, drawing on the company’s claims history, payer knowledge and revenue cycle domain expertise. Working alongside that team, Ghamut supported the technical implementation. The result is technology designed to strengthen outcomes and reduce errors, while allowing specialists to use their judgment to optimize the output.

“Our specialists bring the judgment and experience needed to navigate complex revenue recovery,” said Mikky Franklin, chief delivery officer, Knowtion Health. “Working with Ghamut gives them a more powerful way to surface the information and context they need to make decisions and accelerate stronger appeals. This is one of several ways we plan to apply AI to strengthen how we serve our clients.”

Ghamut brings deep technical and scientific expertise in applied AI, having led or implemented more than $250 million in AI initiatives across industry, government and academic institutions. That caliber of technical rigor and critical thinking is what allows the partnership to move beyond basic automation and build AI that surfaces the context specialists need.

The AI-enabled approach helps specialists surface and synthesize relevant clinical information more efficiently, enabling them to evaluate more eligible claims and build comprehensive, well-supported arguments for payment. Development and use of the approach are governed by the company’s existing security and privacy protocols for healthcare provider and patient information.

Internal testing found that the AI support substantially lifts payment recovery rates. The findings demonstrate the potential of combining AI with specialist judgment to build stronger, better-supported appeals and help health systems recover additional revenue.

“Effective AI starts with the right ingredients,” said Mohammad Ghassemi, Ph.D., founding partner of Ghamut. “At Knowtion, those ingredients included a clear solution vision, years of complex claims data and people who possess deep domain experience. Our role was to translate those elements into a practical solution while preserving the human judgment at the center of the work. That combination is what turns technical possibility into practical value and allows us to continue progressing.”

Beyond appeals, Knowtion is applying this approach to other complex areas of revenue cycle work, with additional AI-driven capabilities already underway. Each is designed to help specialists identify and pursue more recovery opportunities, expand the range of claims evaluated, and ultimately recover more revenue for health systems.

About Ghamut Corporation
Founded in 2016 by MIT and Boston Consulting Group alumni, Ghamut Corporation is a boutique AI consulting firm that helps organizations identify where AI can create the most value and leads execution from strategy through deployment. The team has led or implemented more than $250 million in AI initiatives across industry, government, and academic institutions. Its work has been featured in The Economist and The Wall Street Journal and has included invited testimony before the U.S. Congress on AI and health. Learn more at ghamut.com.

About Knowtion Health
Founded in 2008, Knowtion Health is an AI- and technology-enabled revenue cycle management company helping hospitals recover reimbursement on complex, unresolved claims and strengthen financial performance. Serving more than 70 health systems and over 660 hospitals nationwide, Knowtion Health manages billions annually in outstanding-balance accounts, combining intelligent technology with specialized expertise to deliver measurable results for healthcare providers. Recognized for four consecutive years as one of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000 list, Knowtion Health is trusted by providers seeking more effective, scalable solutions.

The company is backed by Arsenal Capital Partners and Sunstone Partners, supporting continued innovation and growth. For more information, visit KnowtionHealth.com.

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Arizona Voters Want More Done to Develop Arizona’s Own Talent and Help People Build Their Futures Here

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New Arizona Voters’ Agenda findings point to a broader workforce agenda spanning education and career pathways, affordability, housing, and childcare

PHOENIX, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — New statewide, nonpartisan public opinion research from Center for the Future of Arizona (CFA) shows that Arizona voters across political affiliations and age groups want more done to develop the skills and talents of the state’s own students and workers.

The latest findings from the 2026 Arizona Voters’ Agenda reveal strong support for education and training opportunities that lead to good careers and expanding access to affordable childcare. The majority of voters also say it is difficult to improve their financial circumstances, citing wages that do not keep pace with living costs and high housing costs as the leading barriers to getting ahead. The findings point to broad agreement on the need for developing and retaining Arizona’s talent that includes both pathways to opportunity and the conditions that allow people to pursue them and build their lives here.

“Arizona’s future will be shaped by whether Arizonans are supported and equipped to develop their potential and see a future for themselves here,” said Dr. Sybil Francis, Chair, President & CEO of CFA. “These findings give us a fuller picture of what it is that Arizonans are looking for in building their lives here and what it will take for them to be successful. The more success Arizonans enjoy the better off we will be as a state. Our leaders need to embrace that and act on it.

Voters See Arizona’s Own Students and Workers as Central to Economic Success

Nine in ten voters (91%) agree that “Arizona’s long-term economic success depends on doing more to develop the skills and talents of its own students and workers, not just attracting skilled workers from other states.” Sixty-nine percent strongly agree. The agreement includes 90% of Republicans, 92% of independent and unaffiliated voters, and 93% of Democrats, and all age groups.

Voters overwhelmingly support specific actions to develop that talent. Across political affiliations and generations, they agree on:

Increasing access to affordable, high-quality early learning for three- and four-year-oldsExpanding career exploration before graduation, apprenticeships, and other work-based learningIncreasing the number who pursue and complete education or training beyond high school

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