Data Centers: The Big Buildup of the Digital Age

Server farms are colonizing the West's power grids and upending the energy transition

🤖 Data Center Watch 👾

What I’m about to write is strange, even a little surreal, even to me. It seems over the top, hyperbolic, and alarmist, all things I try to avoid in my writing (unless I’m going for satire). But here it is: The Big Data Center Buildup is transforming the West (and other regions) as quickly and radically as the post-war Big Buildup…