Terry Clower

Residents in several communities say they're worried about noise, electricity demand, water use, and environmental impacts that AI data centers could bring.

Terry Clower with George Mason University says some of those concerns are not supported by evidence.

Clower says AI data centers are becoming critical infrastructure for technologies like artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, but says that communities need facts to weigh the tradeoffs.

Windsor Johnston, NPR News.

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Residents in several communities say they're worried about noise, electricity demand, water use, and environmental impacts that AI data centers could bring.

Terry Clower with George Mason University says some of those concerns are not supported by evidence.

Clower says AI data centers are becoming critical infrastructure for technologies like artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, but says that communities need facts to weigh the trade-offs.

Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, space technologies, eventually quantum computing, all these things require massive data storage capabilities.

Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, space technologies, eventually quantum computing, all these things require massive data storage capabilities.

Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, space technologies, eventually quantum computing, all these things require massive data storage capabilities.