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"textContent": "Every major emerging technology has required more energy and infrastructure. Everything digital runs through data centers, making them foundational, not optional. Questions should center on their undertaking rather than their elimination.\n\nThe post The Electricity Myth: Data Centers Aren’t the Villain appeared first on Watts Up With That?.",
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