This Georgetown thesis compares AI data center impacts across three counties: Maricopa, Arizona; Loudoun, Virginia; and San Francisco, California. It finds current governance frameworks miss local conditions and leave affected communities out of decisions, and proposes a new framework called the AI Mendelow Stakeholder Supplement. This framework pairs top-down regulation with bottom-up organizing to center local voices in how AI infrastructure gets sited and governed.
Silent Springs and AI Winters: Navigating the Environmental Impacts of AI Data Centers
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Anisa Bhandari
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Science, Technology, and International Affairs
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January 1, 2025
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