Hidden in plain sight: Open-source maps track America’s power-hungry AI datacenters

https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/mapping-hidden-us-datacenters

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  1. The work comes from Epoch AI, a non-profit research institute focused on understanding the scale and pace of artificial intelligence developmen

    tIts researchers use open-source intelligence to identify, analyze, and document datacenters rising across the United States.

    By reviewing satellite images, construction permits, and local regulatory filings, the team builds an interactive map that estimates cost, ownership, and power consumption.

    The project offers rare visibility into an industry expanding faster than public scrutiny.

  2. coke_and_coffee on

    What’s the point of this?

    Should we also track all of the chrome plating shops in the country so that paranoid eco-terrorists and leftist teenage Redditors can write blog-slop about how they’re using up all the water and electricity???

    Stop it with the pathetic anti-data center moral panic. Stfu, please