The need for data centers to drive 21st-century cloud computing and win the artificial intelligence (AI) race with China is a matter of such national urgency that Energy Secretary Chris Wright described it as the United States’ “next Manhattan Project.”
But assessing how many data centers—a ubiquitous term for “server farms,” supercomputer networks, and bitcoin and crypto “mines”—exist right now in the United States is, in itself, a quixotic foray into computing.
