What’s the real story behind the spread of AI data centers? It depends where you get your news.
Research by Adam Perhala
Artificial intelligence may live in the cloud, but the infrastructure powering it is very much on the ground. That split is reflected in the media’s coverage of the explosive growth of data centers.
In the national media, coverage focuses on the enormous amount of power required by AI and the companies racing to secure it. But local news coverage brings the question closer to home: Who is going to pay for all of it?
That’s the pattern we found using data analysis and topic modeling to examine 10,000 news articles that mentioned data centers in the first six months of…
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