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Tech companies are turning to HBCUs to host AI data centers

Marketplace All-in-One

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4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Big Tech is looking for land to build its AI data centers. HBCUs are looking for new funding after federal cuts.


And partnerships between them, like one announced by Fisk University, could be a mutually beneficial — or could end up being a form of "digital sharecropping," according to strategist Ashley Northington, who wrote about this for Tech Policy Press.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Data centers could be a boon or a boondoggle for historically

1:09.9

black colleges and universities.

1:12.2

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

1:15.3

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

1:26.3

Big Tech is looking for land to build its AI data centers.

1:30.9

HBCUs are looking for new funding after federal cuts.

1:35.5

Partnerships between them, like when announced by Fisk University, could be mutually beneficial.

1:41.0

Or could end up being a form of digital sharecropping, according to

1:46.3

strategist Ashley Northington, who wrote about this for tech policy press.

1:51.6

We mentioned digital sharecropping as a way to just, you know, illustrate that we don't

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