Data centers are quickly emerging as one of the major political issues of the day. These large warehouses full of computer servers processing, storing, and distributing digital information are not new. They’ve been a prevalent part of the world’s digital infrastructure since the internet—and cloud storage, and remote processing, especially—became ubiquitous in modern life. However, the sudden and extremely productive advancements in consumer-facing and widely accessible professional AI tools in recent years have driven up demand for computing power—demand that, by all indications, will only