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 ...

How Data Centers Are Revitalizing The Skilled Trades Economy In The U.S.—And Why It Needs To Happen Fast

What’s standing in the way of a skilled trades revival, and how can the data center industry reenergize its skilled trades pipeline?
City Journal

AI Needs Data Centers—and People to Build Them

How did the world of bits and bytes become the second-largest source of demand for construction workers, trailing only ...

Data centers create jobs in central Ohio, but not in ways you might expect

Economic development experts and construction industry officials say the data centers indirectly create jobs and steady work ...

Data overload? Why central Ohio officials are all in on resource-hungry data centers

Why are state and local officials so welcoming to the data center industry that appears to take more than it gives to the ...
Yahoo

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 ...
Inside Climate News

How Much Water and Energy do Data Centers Consume? A New Jersey Bill Demands Answers.

Meanwhile, in the Great Lakes states, a new report warned that hyper-scale data centers could use up to 365 million gallons ...
WUSA

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 ...