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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Graig Graziosi

A rare nugget of bipartisanship: How data farms’ water-gobbling and rate hikes have communities fighting back

In the polarized world of American politics, there's one subject at least finding common ground among Republicans and Democrats: Data farms.

More than 5,200 of these massive facilities — hubs for digital infrastructure that process data needed to run websites, apps, and much of the rest of the Internet — are spread across America, from large cities to tiny towns. And tech giants like OpenAI, Oracle, Google, and Amazon are racing to build more farms to fuel their computation-hungry AI research and development.

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