The AI Data Center Map
Erin Brockovich is launching a map to track AI data centers, investigating their environmental and community impact.
Erin Brockovich is launching a map to track AI data centers, investigating their environmental and community impact.
The resource-intensive structures are spreading across the nation, with more than 4,300 data centers already constructed. And they're wildly unpopular among many Americans.
Data centers to power AI could use more power than all but five countries by 2030, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said.
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