"Driving down the interstate through the dry Nevada desert, there are few signs that a vast expanse of new construction is hiding behind the sagebrush-covered hills. But, just beyond a massive power plant and transmission towers that march up into the dusty brown mountains, lies one of the world's biggest buildouts of data centers miles of new concrete buildings that house millions of computer servers."
"This business park, called the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, has a sprawling landmass greater than the city of Denver. It is home to the largest data center in the US, built by the company Switch, and tech giants like Google and Microsoft have also bought land here and are constructing enormous facilities. A separate Apple data center complex is just down the road. Tesla's gigafactory, which builds electric vehicle batteries, is a resident too."
Dry Nevada desert hills conceal a vast new construction zone of data centers and related infrastructure. Just beyond a large power plant and transmission towers lies one of the world's biggest data-center buildouts, with miles of concrete buildings housing millions of servers. The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center spans more land than Denver and hosts the US's largest data center built by Switch, with Google, Microsoft and Apple developing major complexes nearby. Tesla's gigafactory also sits in the park. Storey County, once a mid-1800s gold and silver boomtown that inspired Mark Twain, is experiencing a new economic boom fueled by the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure and massive tech investment.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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