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Data centers carve up US forests, farmland and desert
Original: Across the US, forest, farmland & desert🚨➡️cleared to make way for the physical infra that powers our # tech . # DataCen
Across the United States, forests, farmland and desert land are being cleared to build the physical infrastructure behind the tech industry, with data centers increasingly pushed into rural areas. The new facilities are being built to power artificial intelligence, and their powerful chips require far more electricity than earlier data centers. Rural locations are attractive to developers because land costs are lower and they sit near existing fiber networks, but the trend is raising concerns about the environmental and land-use costs of the AI boom.
Why now: The rapid growth of AI is driving a wave of rural land clearing for data centers, drawing attention to the hidden physical and environmental costs of digital infrastructure.
data centersartificial intelligenceUnited States
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