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Tiny Louisiana parish becomes AI boomtown as Meta builds $10B data center: 'It's changing fast'

Land speculators are buying up property, paying 20 or 30 times more than they would have a year ago. New business permits ...
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Will data centers drive up my utility bill?

Ivan Penn of the New York Times discusses his reporting on how big tech’s AI data centers are raising electricity costs for ...
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AI Data Centers Are Coming for Your Land, Water and Power

Think of them as AI factories, churning out your responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and all the other generative AI tools ...
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Meta’s Dual-Track Data Center Strategy: Owning AI Campuses, Leasing Cloud, and Expanding Nationwide

From billion-dollar superclusters in Louisiana and Ohio to a $10B Google Cloud deal and a new Kansas City campus, Meta is ...

Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much

Data centers make up significant proportions of both companies’ water use. In 2023, Meta consumed 813 million gallons of ...