Ann Vaughan

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

And I've gotten to know him.

He was at Microsoft.

He basically coined some metrics about how efficient a data center could be.

And then the latter part of his career at Microsoft, he did a lot of R&D into community positive data centers.

And he's now independent and working as an advisor in a lot of ways.

He says that his industry needs to think about what would make a community want the data center.

He said, and tells his peers, until you're willing to live next to that data center, then you haven't finished doing your job.

And you want it to be like, please, in my backyard.

And there are some really interesting ways that he's seen infrastructure get developed.

He often will cite a...

like a plant, a water desalination plant, the difference between one that was done in Australia and one was done in Singapore, and the one that was done, you know, more community positive way, you know, it's got like a roof of grass and has, you know, all these different ways that it recycles the water that flows in the community.

He's gone to places that, you know, are farming communities and

small, simple things.

Like, we will plant trees that improve the pollination in your community for your agriculture.

Like, this industry is willing to do some of those things if you ask for them.

But, you know, there's a big difference between a large company that's coming in, trying to get permission, social license to operate, and then there's a lot of other, you know, just private developers that are...

looking for, you know, something to develop fast and flip quick.

Yeah.

I think that that's happening now.

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