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The article addresses the growing public backlash against data center construction, specifically focusing on resource consumption like water and electricity as critical infrastructure challenges for AI and cloud computing. It argues that while local opposition is valid in arid regions, the industry must improve cooling technologies and transparency rather than facing blanket vilification. This discussion is central to the sustainability and deployment viability of the physical hardware required for modern AI systems.
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Source coveringFortune
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Don’t vilify data centers for the wrong reasons — just demand better ones
Fortune4 min read
By the time you've checked the weather, paid a bill and answered a few emails, you've probably used several data centers already.
Almost nobody wakes up thinking about a data center. But by the time you’ve checked the weather, paid a bill and answered a few emails, you’ve probably used several. Your bank runs on them, your hospital, your streaming account, every AI tool you’ve tried, and increasingly, more of the public services you rely on. You just never see them. That’s becoming a problem for my industry. In August, supervisors in Pinal County, Arizona, voted down a large data center campus after so many residents turned up to…
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