The AI data center boom is reshaping economies while straining power grids, water supplies, and communities. Here’s the real cost behind AI’s rise.

Concerns about electricity bills and local impacts are fueling bipartisan opposition to the massive data centers that power the digital economy, from cloud services to AI chatbots. In Wisconsin, as in other states,

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Meta’s planned data center could be El Paso’s biggest electricity user. Some residents worry that a new power plant to run it would worsen air pollution and guzzle water.

Tech companies are turning to green concrete to help reduce the massive environmental footprint of building out data centers.

In the past several months, residents in Southwestern Pennsylvania have have heard a lot about the potential development of data centers in the region. If these projects were to come to fruition, what exactly does that mean for the communities where they are proposed?

Data center campuses could blanket at least 14% of Archbald, covering more than 2.4 square miles of the borough — an area roughly the size of the neighboring town of Mayfield. Archbald received its