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A new report from the nonpartisan research group Next 10, An Assessment of California Data Centers’ Environmental and Public Health Impacts, places context and data at the forefront of that footprint.

A new report from the nonprofit NEXT 10 and University of California Riverside found that, in 2023, data centers in California pulled 10.82 terawatt-hours of electricity — 1 terawatt equals 1 trillion watts — from the state’s grid, or about enough to power 1 million U.S. households.

A look at what’s happening in California shows that even in an environmentally progressive state, unhealthy emissions and resource depletion is a problem needing a solution, an academic report says.

Potential health impacts tied to California data center pollution tripled between 2019 and 2023, according to an analysis from University of California, Riverside researchers.

Thanks in large part to the training and running of artificial-intelligence models, the amount of power California data centers are using is surging — as are related environmental and health effects, according to a new report.

In the high-stakes race to power artificial intelligence’s explosive growth, data centers are devouring energy and spewing pollution at unprecedented rates.

esearchers from the University of California, Riverside, found that health impacts from pollution associated with California’s computer processing data centers tripled from 2019 to 2023 — and could rise by another 72% by 2028 unless mitigation policies are enacted.