The Truth About AI Data Centers and Your Community

Do AI data centers drain local power grids, raise electric bills, use too much water, and create too few jobs?

In this highlight from The Brief, Shabbos Kestenbaum asks Joe Honan, CEO of Singularity Compute, to respond to the biggest concerns surrounding the data-center boom. Honan explains how much electricity large data centers can require, whether local residents should worry about higher utility bills, how data-center cooling systems use and recycle water, and why noise concerns have become part of the national debate.

The conversation also covers whether data centers actually create long-term jobs or mostly short-term construction work, why skilled trades matter in the AI infrastructure buildout, and what communities should know before a data center moves in.