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<p>There’s an enormous buildout of data centers underway across the country to fuel the AI boom. Hundreds of <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ai-data-centers-cost-pushback/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">billions</a> of dollars have already been spent on data centers, with talk of spending trillions more. And these data centers use a lot of power: According to the <i>Times Picuayune,</i> Meta’s new data center under construction in Louisiana will require nearly three times the power that New Orleans uses in a year. Residents across the country have taken note, and rising utility rates have become an issue in some recent elections.</p><p>Casey Crownhart, senior climate reporter at<i> MIT Technology Review</i>, has been studying the costs and impacts of the data center boom. She joins Host Ira Flatow for an update on the latest.</p><p>Guest: Casey Crownhart is a senior climate reporter at <i>MIT Technology Review</i>, based in New Y...