America is in the midst of a massive building boom many are beginning to notice. Across the country, nondescript warehouses are popping up on farmland or the edges of suburbs. Inside, out of public view, thousands of servers run nonstop.
They’re feeding our appetite for ever more artificial intelligence and cloud computing, and they’re hungry: A single hyperscale data center operated by Amazon, Google, or Microsoft can draw over 100 megawatts of electricity — enough…
