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Power play
Amelia Newcomb
You and I are meeting online today via what we all call 鈥渢he cloud.鈥� In reality, we鈥檙e communicating via data centers: massive, concrete, windowless buildings that process everything we do and are spreading furiously across the landscape. Just travel with staffers Stephanie Hanes and Riley Robinson today to 鈥淒ata Center Alley鈥� in northern Virginia, as well as to bucolic Carroll County, Maryland, which is bracing as our voracious appetite for greater processing power and more transmission lines encroaches. Even as people recognize what鈥檚 needed to maintain our highly connected lives, they鈥檙e asking an increasingly urgent question: Is no-holds-barred construction really the only way forward?
鈥淭hese controversies are not just about energy and industry,鈥� Stephanie writes. 鈥淭hey are about what we decide is progress, and how we imagine our future.鈥�
