Rage against the machines: How data centres became a US midterm election issue

“Rage against the machines: How data centres became a US midterm election issue”

The US has more data centres than anywhere else in the world despite the unpopularity of the sites that power artificial intelligence. In the last decade amid the AI boom , construction of data centres around the world, and specifically in the US, has reached a breakneck pace. It is that pace, along with environmental worries, construction noise and electricity bill concerns, that have caused them to become so controversial. Although they've existed for quite some time, the unprecedented…