Something Flawed This Way Comes: Syracuse Prof Takes on Data Centers

A Syracuse University professor has published a paper in the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) urging towns to treat AI data centers the way they treated fracking a decade ago. Syracuse's PR department is billing it as "new research" that shows communities how to handle data centers. There's just one problem. It isn't really research—by the author's own admission, no new data was collected. And several of the "facts" about fracking it leans on are flat wrong, especially about Pennsylvania.

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