Project Liberty Substack

Your phone is to a data center as your bedside lamp is to a power grid.

Data centers are the physical substrate of today’s most advanced AI systems. Without clusters of GPUs, massive amounts of energy, millions of gallons of water to keep computers cool, and billions of dollars of investment in the built environment, none of AI’s dazzling capabilities would be possible.

​In this newsletter, we explore the physical dimension of the AI economy by examining the economic, environmental, and political dimensions of data centers. Data centers might be indispensable to the economy that runs on advanced AI systems, but the burdens they impose have a physical footprint, impacting real people in communities across the United States.