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Google will expand AI data centers across PJM, the nation’s largest grid, targeting surging compute demand in regions like Virginia and the Midwest.
Trump is laser-focused on removing barriers to AI expansion, in stark contrast to Biden, who feared U.S. adversaries like China could harness AI chips produced by companies like Nvidia and AMD to supercharge its military and harm allies.
Las Vegas-based Hyperscale Data Inc. has outlined plans to increase the capacity of its artificial intelligence data center in Dowagiac (southwest of Kalamazoo, close to the Indiana border) to 340 megawatts (MW).
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The White House intends to publish a plan on Wednesday that calls for the export of American AI technology abroad and a crackdown on state laws deemed too restrictive to let it flourish, a document seen by Reuters shows.
But as more data centers are built to accommodate AI and other data-intensive processes, energy demand is expected to skyrocket. A single hyperscale data center can use the same amount of energy as a large city, and the stress this is placing on local power grids is expected to drive up energy costs for residents in Virginia—and around the country.
The data company Cologix has started work on a $1 billion AI data center complex in the Lewis Center area, part of a larger central Ohio expansion.