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The AI Data Center Boom
An AI data center is being built just miles from where I live, and it forced a question most of us have avoided: do we really understand what the AI boom looks like in the physical world? Not as apps and prompts, but as 5,800 acres, millions of square feet, and power demands measured in gigawatts. I walk through a newly announced AI energy campus near Pantex outside Amarillo, Texas, and use it as a clear signal that the AI economy is already reshaping local communities.
From there, we zoom out to what these projects trigger: waves of construction work, supply chain growth, hospitality demand…
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