The Intelligence We Build Runs on Someone Else's Power Bill
New York became the first US state to pause new hyperscale data centers, reframing the AI boom as a question of who pays the electricity bill.
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The Towns That Power the Machines
An NTT Data analysis warns that electricity, land and permitting now decide where AI data centers get built — and which towns quietly bear the cost.
The Compute Lives in Memphis, and So Does the Power
Reflection AI's $6.3B lease to train open-weight models on rented SpaceX compute in Memphis exposes who really controls frontier AI — and who does not.