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Janesville, Wisconsin, a city hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis, is now at the center of heated debates over building AI data centers that could drive economic growth but raise concerns about local costs and environmental impacts. Communities nationwide are grappling with whether the infrastructure boom supporting artificial intelligence is worth the tradeoffs in resources, energy consumption, and community character.
Artificial intelligence is fueling stock market highs, economic growth and a construction boom across the country. But it is also igniting fierce local debates about the benefits, the costs and whether the data centers that power AI should be built at all. Economics correspondent Paul…
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