Today’s world is a very different place from even the world of twenty years ago. The meteoric rise of the digital age has swept through every facet of our society and altered the fundamental ways we shop, socialize, work, and communicate. As such, our collective appetite for data has advanced at a similar breakneck speed, but nothing, not the rise of social media, nor the dot.com boom, has seen the same insatiable need for data storage as the modern AI bonanza. To answer this call for boundless digital capacity, the nation has begun building at a scale and speed not seen since the Great Depression. Rather than public works projects we are building data centers. In this report, we will endeavor to unpack some of the mysteries around this data center boom, why it’s happening, who is driving it, and most importantly, what its arrival could mean for communities here in New Mexico.
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