# AI Data Center Buildup

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/ai-data-center-buildup/6162>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** electricity, ai\
**Created:** [11 November 2025 07:44 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/ai-data-center-buildup/6162 "2025-11-11T07:44:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\
**Post date:** [11 November 2025 07:45 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/ai-data-center-buildup/6162/1 "2025-11-11T07:45:00Z")

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Some good data:

> **[What you need to know about AI data centers](https://epoch.ai/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-ai-data-centers)**
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> AI companies are planning a buildout of data centers that will rank among the largest infrastructure projects in history. We examine their power demands, what makes AI data centers special, and what all this means for AI policy and the future of AI.

> **[Frontier AI Data Centers](https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers)**
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> Open database of AI data centers using satellite and permit data to show compute, power use, and construction timelines.

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [27 October 2026 17:31 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/ai-data-center-buildup/6162/2 "2026-10-27T17:31:02Z")

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[https://archive.is/wG9bm](https://archive.is/wG9bm)

> **[Data center backlash is uniting America](https://www.theverge.com/policy/1019152/data-centers-midterm-elections)**
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> From Texas to Pennsylvania, data centers are top of mind.

The backlash against data centers has some merit but data centers are tech progress. Anyone trying to stop the ai train is a Luddite. I guess the Rust Belt wants to fall further behind in the name of ‘principles’ and ‘values’.