The artificial intelligence revolution is being marketed to Americans as a story of innovation,

economic growth, and technological dominance. Companies promise a future powered by smarter software,

faster computing, and seamless digital services. Politicians describe AI as essential to national

competitiveness and economic security.

But behind that glossy language about the cloud and the future of technology

lies a rapidly expanding physical infrastructure system that is actively transforming communities across the country

and placing mounting strain on the country's environment, water supplies, and electrical grid.

At the center of the transfer transformation, our hyperscale data centers sprawling industrial facilities packed with servers that process and store the massive amounts of information required to power AI systems, cloud computing platforms, streaming services, and digital applications.

Once considered largely invisible infrastructure, these facilities are now consuming extraordinary amounts of electricity, water, and land at a pace that energy experts, environmental advocates, and local residents say

is becoming increasingly unsustainable. The United States of America has a data center problem.

Data centers are actively killing Americans, killing the environment, and killing the people

who rely on the environment. And I have the latest right now.

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below to support my work. Because right now, across the country, communities are beginning to

push back. Residents are protesting transmission lines routed through neighborhoods, raising alarms,

about declining water supply,

and questioning why local governments are approving projects that could permanently reshape the places where they live.

At the same time, the national grid operators and consumer advocates are issuing urgent warnings

that explosive growth of AI infrastructure could contribute to rising utility costs

and destabilized parts of America's aging electrical system.

The scale of the expansion is difficult to overstate because a single modern AI data

center can now consume as much electricity as 100,000 homes. Some of the largest campuses now being planned are expected to require as much as 20 times that amount.

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