America Building Data Center Fortresses That Drink Water Like Thirsty Dragons
KEY POINTS
- •On October 20, 2025, Business Insider published an award-winning investigative series on the nationwide AI data center boom.
- •Experts like Hannah Beckler raised concerns about data centers' high electricity and water use impacting local communities’ resources.
- •Wall Street worries about circular Nvidia investments and big tech’s massive data center spending possibly destabilizing credit markets.
On October 20, 2025, a 33-megawatt data center in Vernon, California showed us that Silicon Valley’s thirst for AI computing looks like it’s auditioning for a monster movie role—gulping up electricity and water like a techie with FOMO. Business Insider, who started this nerdy obsession almost two years ago, just bagged a George Polk Award in 2026 for spotlighting these server mega-farms, including Meta’s Hyperion site in Louisiana that's planning to outsize Central Park like a techie’s midlife crisis. Journalists like Hannah Beckler and Dakin Campbell are asking if companies like Nvidia — investing in their own labs that buy their own chips — are creating an incestuous AI money-loop that Wall Street’s mostly terrified about. Meanwhile, Robert Leslie is eyeing satellite images to spy on these monstrous server jungles, particularly their impact on rural folks who probably signed up for peace and quiet, not an energy-sucking behemoth. It’s a digital siege with power outages, sky-high bills, and the troubling question: will our drinking water survive the AI gold rush?
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Congrats, America: your future is giant data centers so thirsty they could drown a small town’s water supply while charging sky-high electric bills nobody asked for.
Watching tech giants bankroll data centers that gobble power like gluttonous ogres while Wall Street quietly panics is peak 21st century drama.
When your AI lab buys chips from itself via Nvidia, you’ve officially entered the weirdest family reunion in capitalism’s history.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 2/22/2026 | Author: Jamie Heller
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