AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where

This article was clearly written with AI.

I copied this text from the article, and all the text is close together and appeared on my screen at the same time:

The state-level numbers make that abstract claim concrete

Business professor Arie Brish argues data centers should function like major real-estate developments — with binding, pre-negotiated agreements on who funds generation, transmission, and backup capacity before a single server rack goes online. Right now, those infrastructure costs get averaged across everyone’s bill instead. That’s not a market failure. That’s a policy choice.

I don't think anyone would write "make that abstract claim concrete" or "That’s not a market failure. That’s a policy choice." and use an em dash unless they wanted to make the text seem like it was AI generated.

I'm getting a little suspicious of the quality of this source. If you're looking for the data center map, you'll find it here:

https://www.datacentermap.com/

After navigating to https://www.gadgetreview.com/ai-data-centers-are-driving-up-power-bills-this-map-shows-where I saw a prominent element colored like a rainbow on the right side, and hovering over it showed text that is surely AI generated, like "Find AI data center cooling gear". Clicking the element produced a chat drawer with text like "GR AI Assistant" and "Powered by Brambles.ai".

This Map Shows Where

This map shows virtually nothing because the AI left out the map key.

Fiber optics work at the speed of light. So latency isn't a big deal imo

So why are they putting data centers in the warm places? Put them all in Northern Canada or Alaska. Cooling issues are fixed just need power and Canada is pretty dam (pun intended) good at making Hydro power.