Last Updated on November 13, 2025 by Serena Zehlius, Editor
Big Tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg are building gigantic data centers to power AI. One of them is the size of Manhattan!
We’re now seeing the reality of how they affect electricity costs for residents in the area as well as the massive amounts of power and fresh water required to run them—and they aren’t even being used yet!
“As tech giants announce hundreds of billions in new data center investments, we’re witnessing a fundamental misunderstanding of our compute shortage problem.
The industry’s current approach, throwing money at massive infrastructure projects, resembles adding two more lanes to a congested highway. It might offer temporary relief, but it doesn’t solve the underlying problem.”
John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report.
Read more here: Data centers are eating the economy — and we’re not even using them
