Megan McCarty Carino

Lots of them being built all over this country, powering, we are told, our economic future.

There are something like 5,000 data centers in the United States right now.

Some, like the one Miley and I are standing next to, repurposed office buildings you walk past every day.

So we're doing some special coverage this week about AI and you and the infrastructure being built to run it.

So, yes, we'll start walking.

Yeah.

So we're going to show you our L.A.

3 facility.

This data center campus includes that old post office building where we checked in.

It's hardwired into a brand new building right next to it that opened in 2020.

And this is a 18 megawatt purpose built facility specific for high performance data center applications.

That's Eric de la Pena, also with CoreSight.

So people think, as we get into the elevator, people think data center right now in the common parlance, and it's some ginormous building out in the middle of like Virginia or Iowa or something.

That is not this.

Correct.

There are different kinds of data centers.

You're hearing hyperscale data centers, major AI-built data centers.

Those are focused on all compute, and that compute can kind of sit anywhere in the U.S.

Compute.

What is that?