Baseball, Gardening, and the Metaverse

Baseball, Gardening, and the Metaverse

“Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers.” Matteo Wong visits some of the places being transformed by new AI data centers. In many ways, these are the new strip mines by which urban centers extract value from colonial territories: “Even conservative analyses forecast that the tech industry will drop the equivalent of roughly 40 Seattles onto America’s grid within a decade; aggressive scenarios predict more than 60 in half that time.…