The US president has framed AI data centres as the defining economic resource of the coming decades, arguing they will deliver wealth and investment to communities even as inflation and borrowing costs weigh on households.
The US president has framed AI data centres as the defining economic resource of the coming decades, arguing they will deliver wealth and investment to communities even as inflation and borrowing costs weigh on households.
A data centre went up near my town last spring. It drinks more water than the entire village, the pylons arrived two years before the jobs did, and my mortgage has doubled regardless. They call this growth. They call it oil. Ours smells like a backup diesel generator and a rejected planning appeal. Fifty years of this? Charming.