The Data Center Mystery: Why Billions of Simulated Worlds Are the Best Explanation of What’s Happening Introduction: The Unsettling Growth of Data Centers I have been watching the global data center buildout with a growing sense of unease. Over three thousand new sites are being planned or constructed around the world right now, consuming land and energy on a scale never seen before. It doesn’t take a financial analyst to realize that the numbers simply do not add up — unless there is a hidden objective far beyond serving current demand for cloud computing, web hosting or streaming video. Earlier…

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