What are data centers and what do they mean for Central GA? Here’s what you should know

They power the cloud, stream your shows and store files and documents. Here’s what’s really inside those giant buildings.

Why do AI data centers use so many resources?

With the AI boom, construction of new data centers has skyrocketed, and not without consequence — some communities that count ...
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Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

And that computing power has a big environmental footprint. A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 ...
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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much

As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a ...
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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much

WASHINGTON — Story from The Conversation by Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, Professor and ...
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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) A 2024 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated that in 2023, U ...