Director Scanlan Featured in High Plains Public Radio Piece about Kansas AI-Data Center Proposal

Crops being irrigated in Kansas.

Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was on NPR’s High Plains Public Radio discussing a proposed rural Kansas data center. Professor Scanlan contextualized how the lack of resource demand disclosure and regional- and state-level planning for AI-data center development can disempower local communities.

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