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The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

Coming to a city near you: Data Centers…

The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

Emily & Jason Morrow

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Emily and Jason discuss a town in PA that has been wrecked by data centers, and what that means for the rest of us.  Sponsor - EarthRunners We absolutely LOVE our EarthRunners in the Morrow household. Head over to ⁠https://www.earthrunners.com⁠ and use code RVC to get 10% off at checkout.  Musicbed License: MB010U6UFYGDISR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.2

You're listening to the really very crunchy podcast bonus episode.

0:39.7

It's a good one. It's a doozy it's depressing oh i came across an article um about a town it's called archibald pennsylvania 7000 people

0:49.9

and uh calvania is beautiful oh. Um, they're getting a data center. So are we.

0:59.8

Yeah. Yeah. But there are, how do we get to be one of these lucky towns? Well, because we have

1:06.6

energy plants, which they were a big energy town back in the day as well.

1:11.7

So they're picking up all these old towns that were energy towns because they have the

1:15.5

capacity to increase their wattage.

1:18.7

And so it's like whatever, I don't know the science behind all of it, but it's like, bam,

1:23.2

you're a data center town.

1:26.1

I don't want to be a data center town.

1:28.1

Well, neither do the people of Archibald, Pennsylvania.

1:32.0

Okay.

1:34.2

They're adding so many data centers there.

1:37.7

Multiple data centers?

1:38.9

Like seven of them.

1:40.1

That it's like adding 51 Walmarts to a town of 7,000 people.

1:47.3

Gross.

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