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Amanda Caswell

States are starting to ban the secrecy behind AI data centers — here's why you should care

Ai data centers.

We talk a lot about what AI can do, but not enough about where all that AI actually lives.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and the countless other AI tools that have appeared over the past few years, all of which require enormous data centers packed with servers and GPUs. Building them requires land, electricity and, depending on the cooling system, water.

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