The explosive growth of gigantic data centres across the country is troubling Republican and Democratic voters alike, creating an unusual point of agreement in an otherwise deeply polarised nation.
USSC Director of Strategic Technologies Olivia Shen spoke with SBS News about community sentiment in the United States towards data centres, saying hyperscale facilities differ in scale and resource demands from older data centres that have existed for decades without widespread attention or controversy and that hese developments have caught some rural communities off guard, with residents raising concerns about immense resource consumption, noise, rising energy bills, and a lack of consultation.