
Data Centers Are the New Company Towns
Tax abatements, water rights and two-gigawatt campuses: local politics is the new site-selection moat.
5 RESULTS FOR “DATA CENTERS”

Tax abatements, water rights and two-gigawatt campuses: local politics is the new site-selection moat.

AI infrastructure has a water risk because computing capacity is physical.
The AI buildout is becoming a credit-market story because infrastructure ambitions increasingly exceed what companies can finance comfortably through ordinary operating budgets.
Artificial intelligence spending is entering the stage where scale alone is no longer sufficient evidence of strategy.

Interconnection queues, not GPUs, are the binding constraint on the next wave of compute.
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