All that new AI-fueled datacenter space? Yeah, that's mostly ours – cloud giants

The number of bit barns currently under construction has exploded in the wake of the AI boom, surging nearly 70 percent in North America's top markets over the past year to a record high of 3.87 gigawatts, according to a newly published CBRE report. The fastest-growing regions include Atlanta, where the number of datacenter …

[Anonymous Coward]

"abundance of cheap power"

Not for much longer, if DCs erode the reserve margin (spare generating capacity). Electricity is a very, very demanding market once the reserve is tight, with very little price elasticity because of the high fixed costs and long lead times on new capacity. I'd also imagine the US heartlands act as swing producers for neighbouring regions, those neighbours could be in for a nasty surprise if they're reliant on imports.

[UnknownUnknown]

Waste of human endeavour and pissing all over the environment.

Just wrong, for approaching zero benefit to mankind.

[CGBS]

incestuous Corporate Data Consortium

So, all of this power and water is going to the normal cloud providers so that they can continue expanding their efforts in violating and collecting more and more data on their users to bundle and sell to advertisers as well as making everyone in the world in someway dependent upon them for the simple act of existence (what do you use more to identify yourself, your government ID or some identity provider according to google, Microsoft, etc...?). Seems worth it.