Ann Vaughan

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 902: The Pros, Cons, and Complications of Data Centers · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

There are multi-gate block campuses being planned.

The whole community.

Yeah, the whole community.

And as going to this concentrated place, yeah, it's a big landmass, but we're talking a few thousand acres.

where that much power could be going into a single place um so it's it's the scale of it is selecting areas where there's where there's the possibility of getting and moving that amount of power yeah and and that um has it it's not like you know just because there are power lines going through a property um or just because there's a power plant a nuclear power plant in the vicinity um that is available

So then you get to things like power congestion and the ability to pull a large amount of power to a single location.

And so it becomes this really complicated matrix of factors that are bringing people places.

So it's, you know, can the power, are there pockets of power that are accessible?

Does the community or the state make it easy to build?

Is there water?

This is not the very first concern, though.

Is there fiber?

Fiber is easier to lay, but, you know, we also had a glut of fiber that was laid in the, you know, in the dot-com days.

So, you know, these are some of the concerns.

You know, others are land value.

And so you will now see data center developments going up.

It's in, you know, virtually...

Are they actually looking for land?

Yeah, the cost of the land matters.

Places where data centers are quite saturated, like Northern Virginia, the land values have approached the millions per acre.

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