Data Centers: Centers of Controversy in the Big Tech AI Buildout
Date of Creation
Summer 7-18-2025
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Description
This is a project looking at industry reports on environmental impacts of data centers for a broad overview of the issues raised by the current AI-driven data center buildout. It uses news coverage to add dimension to the impacts experienced by the particular communities in which these massive data centers are being constructed.
Keywords
data center, big tech, AI, Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Data Center Alley, community impact
Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Document Type
Digital Project
Recommended Citation
Varney, Deryn, "Data Centers: Centers of Controversy in the Big Tech AI Buildout" (2025). Digital Scholarship Summer Research Fellows. 22.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/dssrf/22
