Center for Water Policy Director, Professor & Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a recent NPR article examining the rapid expansion of data centers across the United States and the accompanying environmental challenges. The article highlights increasing public opposition to data center projects, citing worries over electricity demand, climate impacts, and a lack of transparency around water and energy use.
She commented that the Great Lakes states are seeing the “rollout of what these massive investments in data centers are potentially going to start to look like on the ground.”
Read the full story on NPR: Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks
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