Satellite images show how data centers are changing America’s landscape
Business insider
- There are over a thousand planned or existing data centers across the US, according to a BI investigation.
- Major tech companies are racing to construct even more as the AI boom continues. But at what cost?
- Satellite images show where these facilities are cropping up and why they’re a nuisance to many.
Build, baby, build. That’s the mantra behind the AI boom sweeping America.
This year, alone, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google are projected to spend about $320 billion in capex, mostly for AI infrastructure, according to an analysis of financial statements by Business Insider.
At the heart of this AI infrastructure growth are data centers that house the specialized hardware and high-speed networking equipment, driving the intensive computations behind large language models. However, AI needs more.
Because AI learns by processing increasingly large amounts of data, improving it requires more computational power, which in turn necessitates more data centers.
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