Business Insider Publication Exposes Data Center Secrets...

Business Insider published a report identifying data centers, existing and approved construction, across the entire USA. The folks who own existing data centers, and those who want more built, are very secretive.

Data centers use enormous amounts of electricity and similarly enormous quantities of fresh water (too oft in places, like the desert southwestern USA, that do not have the water to spare). There is a method for a closed loop that reuses the same water repeatedly, but that costs the data center operators a great deal of money to build and operate; money that cuts into their profit margins.

Another problem is that the supply of renewably produced electricity is completely insufficient for the electrification of transportation, homes, offices and manufacturing infrastructure, so they are quietly promoting increased use of gas, diesel, oil, coal (increased GHG emissions; greater climate change consequences) and nuclear power generation.  The problem with nuclear power is the large production of spent fuel rods, that will be dangerously radioactive for hundreds (Plutonium 238 half-life of 87 years) to billions (that’s right, the half life of Uranium 235 (700 million years) and Uranium 238 (4 billion years). There is no known way to store those spent fuel rods safely; especially for the needed amount of time.. The Plutonium is a low concentration of nuclear bomb material, both of the Uranium atomic weights are dirty bomb material.

https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-images-show-how-data-centers-changing-american-landscape-2025-10#watch-the-documentary-below-on-the-dark-side-of-data-centers-keep-reading-to-see-satellite-images-of-how-data-centers-are-changing-the-american-landscape-2

AI has been proven to be as capable of data manipulation (via fudged equations, and gaming of the numbers that are plugged in to said equations) as any human...  Creating documentation that is false, lying like a human. AI, when properly peer reviewed and corrected, is capable of being run on smaller, existing computing environments; doesn’t need the proposed, new infrastructure.

Pause, till there is a proven need, AI and data center development.