Small Towns Are Betting That the Data Center Boom Will Never End

What happens when data centers come to town? A whole lot, wanted or not. Tech firms are promising to pour trillions of dollars into building new data centers to continue powering the rapid growth of AI models, which means they are asking communities across the country if they are looking for new neighbors. According to a Wall Street Journal report, nearly three-quarters of all US data center capacity currently comes from just 33 of the nation’s 3,143 counties, and residents of those…