The Data Center Next Door
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:31.6 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, February 20th. I'm Patrick Coffey for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.6 | The AI revolution is no longer just a software race, and hyperscalers are hurrying to put the right |
| 0:46.1 | infrastructure in place. Data centers are a booming business, and their rapid expansion is being |
| 0:51.5 | felt across industries. On today's show, we're taking a look at two. |
| 0:56.5 | First, in the battle for AI dominance, every engine of the economy is getting recruited into the fight, |
| 1:01.9 | and that includes literal ones made for jets. We're unpacking how it all works. Then in some regions |
| 1:08.3 | of the country, big tech is buying up a lot of land to build data centers, |
| 1:12.6 | and homeowners aren't happy. |
| 1:13.6 | We're diving into how these new developments are unfolding and where they might go next. |
| 1:22.6 | But first, tech giants and their developer partners are rushing to set up these massive data centers |
| 1:27.7 | as fast as they can, and that translates into an unprecedented demand for energy. |
| 1:33.1 | One of the most effective and convenient sources on hand turns out to be jet engines, |
| 1:38.2 | which can be converted into turbines powered by natural gas. |
| 1:42.2 | The journal's Jinju Lee covers the energy sector for our herd on the street column, |
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