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Data center costs and resource concerns are overstated
Data center costs and resource concerns are overstated
Baker argues that common claims about data centers exhausting community water or necessarily raising electricity prices are inaccurate and says data centers can provide substantial local economic benefits.
- Speaker
- Gavin Baker
- Source timestamp
- 19:28
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