Data centers don’t have to be a burden on local communities – and can even support them

Many consumers – and state policymakers and even utility companies – are worried about the possibility of large numbers of data centers raising electricity demand and power prices. Those are real concerns, but our engineering research finds that if designed, constructed, and operated carefully, data centers can actually help the communities that host them. Locating power-generating capacity on-site, even using modified jet engines […]