Ann Vaughan
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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 902: The Pros, Cons, and Complications of Data Centers · 13 Jul 2026
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And all of a sudden, these campuses started to get constructed.
people started to say, wait a minute, like, I didn't know this was happening.
And, well, you know, some of this may have been done just like any kind of industrial real estate project might have been in the past, where people go to the local zoning authorities.
They say, hey, we're with this company.
We want to buy this land.
Can we put this application in?
you know, normally the public is not watching every move on that front.
Yeah.
But all of a sudden, there was this collective realization that there had been a kind of rush out into the middle of the country because these data centers were on a totally different scale than the cloud data centers and were going to need to go places where there was enough land or where there was enough power, where there was some headroom and, you know,
whether it was water, the grid.
And it kind of started to reach a fever pitch.
I would say I noticed it on a trip to Wisconsin in early February, where the backlash had grown just exponentially.
Well, okay.
So the worries are that data centers are going to destroy our environment.
They're going to,
you know, destroy our health, that they'll drain Lake Michigan.
They'll, you know, raise the temperature above the buildings and into our neighborhoods.
They'll poison the water supply.
They'll spike our power bills.
They'll only take subsidies and not give anything back to, you know, local communities.
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