The growth could put data centers in competition with local populations for space and resources.
As my colleague Dan Geiger reports today in an excellent story on a data center development boom, the AI explosion has triggered a surge in investment in these warehouse-like complexes.
For example, DataBank, a data center provider backed by investment firm DigitalBridge, is putting smaller data centers in the suburbs of "tier two and tier three cities," CEO Marc Ganzi told my colleague Ellen Thomas.
Unlike e-commerce warehouses, these data centers don't add a bunch of traffic to the roads, and they're pretty quiet.
As a result of limited generation capacity in places like Arizona and northern Virginia, these data centers are popping up anywhere where the local utilities can support them.
Persons:
tony, Dan Geiger, Jonathan Gray, Blackstone, Marc Ganzi, Ellen Thomas
Organizations:
Morning, APS
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Ohio, Georgia, Virginia, Loudoun Meadows, Aldie , Virginia, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Phoenix, Atlanta, Reno, Arizona, Southwest