The data center boom in the desert

The data center boom in the desert

Apple, Google, and other tech companies are planning huge AI or cloud storage data centers near Reno, sparking fears of water strains in America’s driest state.

The Data Center Boom in the Desert

(MIT Technology Review) – The corporate race to amass computing resources to train and run artificial intelligence models and store information in the cloud has sparked a data center boom in the desert—just far enough away from Nevada’s communities to elude wide notice and, some fear, adequate scrutiny.  The full scale and potential environmental impacts of the developments aren’t known, because the footprint, energy needs, and water requirement…

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