Nearly 1,900 U.S. public schools are within a mile of a data center

Arnco-Sargent Elementary School sits in a wooded area on a two-lane road about 50 miles south of Atlanta. Across the street is a child care center. A Baptist church is less than a mile away.  But if developers get their way, the school’s newest neighbor could be a sprawling data center campus housing the networking infrastructure needed to help power Americans’ reliance on the internet and, increasingly, artificial intelligence . Families, some who have lived in the area for generations, ar

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