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.
Read the piece at High Plains Public Radio.
Check out the Center’s AI-data center policy recommendations in our Legislative Model.