Ann Vaughan

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

And so I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, there are big advances and

And perhaps these newer estimates of what a chat GPT search does use in water are taking into account some of that efficiency.

But you're going to have, the problem right now is that there are wildly different estimates and plenty of them are scary numbers that have no context around them.

They haven't been compared to anything else.

Yeah, well, except it's now become bipartisan against.

communities that don't like what sort of differentiates them is it is it ideology like political ideology what is it you know a friendly town versus an antagonistic town well i i it's a combination of um how they feel they were treated from the beginning and um how you know their their ability to imagine what the future could be hold for them um possibly

economically.

So the Northern Virginia has a very heavy concentration of data centers today, and it takes 25% of power use in Virginia now goes to data centers.

And it's mostly concentrated in the whole state.

And people in Northern Virginia have benefited economically from

The tax revenue.

Okay.

So data centers don't employ as many people, especially the older data centers.

They therefore don't bring a big burden on hospitals, schools, roads, ambulance, all that stuff.

The cloud data centers employed, you know, it could be like 20 people, although the bigger AI data centers are going to employ hundreds of people.

Some of them even say in the four figures.

But the... So some of these places have had a huge influx of tax revenue.

They've improved their schools.

Northern Virginia fits that.

Even so, it gets to a certain point where people, you know, are living with these developments right up in their

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