Data Centers: Centers of Controversy in the Big Tech AI Buildout

Authors

Deryn Varney, Bucknell UniversityFollow

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