Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price
PaulHoule · hn · 2026-11-13
A Cornell report examines how the surging power demand from AI data centers shifts costs onto lower-income rural residents.
It details the pricing and infrastructure mechanisms that make communities near data centers bear a disproportionate share of the burden, an empirical look at the social cost distribution of AI infrastructure.
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