Data centers fight back
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Data centers fight back

B2中高级2026年10月14日25分钟
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Data centers have maybe the worst image in America right now. Enter the public relations professionals. This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. The sun rises on Microsoft's Project Ginger West and a nearby farmhouse in West Des Moines, Iowa. Photo by Liz Rymarev, Post-Dispatch via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠⁠vox.com...

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40,000 acres worth.

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You know, Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary? You've got a real business, but you're a pig. You're greedy. It's hard to tell where the ruthless businessman shtick ends and the human begins.

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Not helping matters, his recent efforts to build the mother of all data centers in Utah, 40,000 acres worth. He called it Wonder Valley. There's a valley.

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A valley where technology and nature will come together in perfect harmony, where the future will pulse at every turn. The people of Utah said no thanks and the project seems to have tanked. Amazon Google met a Microsoft Oracle and the rest of Big Data want to spend something like

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