The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

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Storey County, Nevada — once a gold rush boomtown — hosts one of the largest datacenter buildouts in the U.S. at the 160-square-mile Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center. Google, Microsoft and Switch lead construction across thousands of desert acres. The Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe warns the expansion threatens already over-allocated groundwater in the driest state in the country.

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Dara Kerr
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