Why the Joplin Data Center Hurts Wildwood Ranch Residents
The Joplin City Council approved a massive data center at Wildwood Ranch without environmental studies. Read this article to learn how this data center impacts our water and power grid. Data centers are being pushed into communities all over the country, including right here in Wildwood Ranch located in Joplin Missouri, and most people don’t understand what they actually do. What I’ve learned is simple: data centers bring almost nothing positive to a city, but they take a whole lot from the people who live there. Many people think the data centers are AI taking over but they are wrong , it’s about humans building giant data-harvesting machines that store every click, every movement, and every behavior we make forever. And the environmental cost is paid by the community, not the corporations. Data Centers Heat Up the World Around Them A data center runs 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Those servers generate a tremendous amount of heat, and that heat doesn’t magically...