🇺🇸 Data centers get blamed for spiking your power bill and drying up local water supplies, but is that fair?
Nationally, data centers use just 3% of what American golf courses consume.
And they only account for 4% of total U.S. electricity.
But AI demand is accelerating infrastructure costs fast… are these concerns really overblown?
Writer: Michael
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2026-06-19 20:12:26 UTC
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