Does Florida fully appreciate the demands of data centers?
Communities will live with consequences involving energy demand, water usage, land use and infrastructure strain.
Communities will live with consequences involving energy demand, water usage, land use and infrastructure strain.
Across Florida’s heartland, communities such as Indiantown are weighing proposals for data centers.
Given their energy and water use, hyperscale data centers should always start with rigorous transparency.
The effort to regulate artificial intelligence in Florida has been led by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
House Bill 1007 would ban 'hyperscale' data centers on environmentally sensitive lands and set other rules.
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