A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI.
Tech companies and data center developers are devising new ways to get enough electricity, including building out their own power sources.
New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity. But if all planned data center projects were to plug into …
Read the full story at The Verge. So far, though, things are looking grim.
Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains.
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