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A data center is a building filled with computer servers that keeps cloud software and artificial intelligence running.
Communities across the country have raised alarms over electricity costs, water use, and limited local job creation from these facilities.
Microsoft is now pointing to Quincy, Washington, a farming town of roughly 8,100 people in central Washington, as evidence that those concerns can be managed. Microsoft began building in Quincy about 20 years ago.
The company was drawn by affordable land, a cool climate that cuts the energy needed to keep servers from overheating, and abundant hydropower from the Columbia River.
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