Conversation

Data centers: twice as bad as coal

"If expansion stays at its current rates, the total public health burden of U.S. data centers could cost the economy more than $20 billion per year, double that of U.S. coal-based steelmaking and comparable to that of on-road emissions of California."

“The barrier to data center development is not permitting, it is the immense challenge of finding adequate power supply that doesn’t shift costs to other consumers or strain the grid."

https://www.citizen.org/news/biden-plan-to-build-ai-data-centers-could-hike-local-energy-bills/