Living near a data center—the storage spaces for racks of graphics processing units (GPUs), or AI-specific chips—can be a nightmare.
Just ask the Virginia community that couldn’t sleep due to a 24/7 hum or the Georgia households whose kitchen taps slowed to a trickle after Meta built a facility nearby.
This story highlights another, rarely discussed human toll: the planned acquisition of private land, some of which has been in families for generations, to make way for the electrical infrastructure required to power these centers.
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