HPL's Director of Communications, Jackson Gaskins, was recently featured in ECT News Network's TechNewsWorld discussing the shifting landscape of AI data center development.
While land and power have always been the primary drivers for site selection, a new factor is taking center stage: local resistance and community pushback. As Jackson tells John P. Mello Jr.,
“The shift inland is being driven first by community pushback, due to skyrocketing consumer energy bills, and then by the political and regulatory pressure that follows. Once concerns around energy use, water, and land start gaining traction locally, it doesn’t take long for that to turn into hearings, delays, or new restrictions. At that point, it’s less about land availability or power access and more about where a project can realistically get approved.”
Read the full article here: https://www.technewsworld.com/story/ai-data-center-boom-drives-inland-expansion-across-us-180277.html
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