Will Business and NGO Leaders Step Up to the Opportunity?
AI’s newfound omnipresence can lend it a deceptively light feel. You power on a laptop or phone and there it is, accompanying you wherever your work or pleasure may take you.
But there is a big, concrete side to all that cloud computing: the data centers housing the routers, wires, cooling and storage systems, servers, and huge generators that make it all happen. The buildout of these enormous infrastructures (some will be the size of airports!) is happening fast and right across the US, often in rural areas where land and energy are cheaper.
That’s both a big opportunity and a big challenge.