The American (Data) Center

“Developers plan to build six of the sprawling campuses in Archbald to power the demand for artificial intelligence, eventually covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Those campuses would include 51 data warehouses — each about the size of a Walmart Supercenter — including seven buildings encompassing more than a million square feet.” WaPo (Gift Article): A town of 7,000 planned so many data centers, it’s like adding 51 Walmarts.

+ Ars Technica: The great American data center divide. The divide isn’t across political leanings. It’s between the companies that want to build data centers and the people who live where they want to build them.

+ The people worried about over-developing data centers could soon include those building and financing them. WSJ (Gift Article): OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO. “The company’s CFO and board have questioned the wisdom of massive data-center spending in the face of slowing growth.”