A corridor at One Wilshire in downtown Los Angeles, which is almost entirely server farms and data centers. They are worried that the data centers that power artificial intelligence will lead to pollution, higher power bills and worse. “Absolutely not!” the executive snapped back, said Paryavi, the chairman of the Washington D.C.-based think tank International Data Center Authority. A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Ind., on Oct. 2. AdvertisementNTT, Vantage Data Center and downtown San José on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 in Santa Clara, Calif.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 02, 2026 16:04 UTC