Rahul Mewawalla writes in Power about the role that America’s heartland is playing in the digital revolution.
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is transforming our world, but it comes with an insatiable surge in data centers that are powered by an ever-growing appetite for energy. As AI and high-performance computing (HPC) applications proliferate, the tech industry faces a growing challenge: building the next generation of data centers and finding suitable locations with the scale of power and infrastructure needed to support the expected growth.
Ironically, the solution to our future may lie in our past—the very industrial heartland that powered America’s historical economic dominance can provide the solutions to our AI-driven future. Across the Rust Belt, former steel mills and legacy manufacturing plants are finding new life as digital infrastructure hubs. This renaissance is breathing economic vitality into communities hit hard by the decades-long reduction in domestic industrial manufacturing, while helping to meet the insatiable demand for global compute power.
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