OPINION — From national politics down to local neighborhood discussion, America seems to be in full-blown moral panic about data centers.
The two main concerns voiced by both politicians and my neighbors boil down to arguments that the increasing number and size (due to the push toward resource-intensive artificial intelligence in pretty much everything) of data centers requires “too much” electricity and “too much” water.
That may be true … right now. But will it be true a few years from now? Not likely. Why? Well, let’s look at some history.
