Data center expansion, with all its challenges and benefits

[1srelluc]

Virginia Explained: Data center expansion, with all its challenges and benefits

Humanity is almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century and Virginia — home to 70% of the world’s data centers — is on the frontlines of the latest emerging technology: artificial intelligence, or AI. The prevalence of data centers and the rising role of AI don’t equate to a dystopian...

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Virginia — home to 70% of the world’s data centers — is on the frontlines of the latest emerging technology: artificial intelligence, or AI.

The prevalence of data centers and the rising role of AI don’t equate to a dystopian battle between humans and machine control, though (at least at the moment). Rather, these issues are at the center of a debate over localities’ authority and revenue benefits, historic preservation, environmental considerations, and electricity demand and utility rate projections, all shaped by ever-increasing internet use.

Northern Virginia, the densely populated suburbs and exurbs located just outside the nation’s capital, is home to 70% of the world’s data centers, the huge warehouses that store computers’ processing equipment, internet network servers and data drives. With people increasingly using web-based programs on an average of 22 internet-connected devices in homes, data centers are seen to be needed more than ever.

While data centers are proposed as potential drivers of economic benefits for localities, a number of Virginians have expressed concerns about the proliferation of the warehouses in the state and their effect on communities where they’re located......

I didn't know quite where to put this one as data centers hit on so many hot button issues.....Environmental.....Power & water use/requirements.....Quality of life.....Tax income.

It's something "new" that Virginia localities are dealing with as the centers look to expand away from NOtVA the like of which they have not had to deal with before.

So many temptations, so many issues.....Nobody wants "Shelbyville" to get the data center "Monorail".

 

[Manonthestreet]

DatA centers are planet killers. Libs told me so

 

[1srelluc]

DatA centers are planet killers. Libs told me so

Given the noise they produce I'd not want to live by one.