Science Friday — As Companies Build Data Centers For AI, Communities Push Back

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As Companies Build Data Centers For AI, Communities Push Back

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There’s an enormous buildout of data centers underway across the country to fuel the AI boom. Hundreds of billions of dollars have already been spent on data centers, with talk of spending trillions more. And these data centers use a lot of power: According to the Times Picuayune, Meta’s new data center under…

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