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A '''data center''' is a mammoth array of computers for storing and processing data, typically filling 10-50 acres in a large warehouse-type building or buildings (called a campus if more than one building, in which case it can cover 200 or more acres). If the space is rented, then the landlord is called the colocation provider.

A '''data center''' is a mammoth array of computers for storing and processing data, typically filling 10-50 acres in a large warehouse-type building or buildings (called a campus if more than one building, in which case it can cover 200 or more acres). If the space is rented, then the landlord is called the colocation provider.

Data centers are bilking the public in multiple ways:

Data centers are ripping off and bilking the public in multiple ways:

* special rights to unlimited [[water]] consumption in regions where it is scarce, like [[Texas]]; one large data center consumes the water of a 50,000-person city

* special rights to unlimited [[water]] consumption in regions where it is scarce, like [[Texas]]

* preferred energy rates while homeowners must pay sharp increases in electricity bills

* preferred energy rates while homeowners must pay sharp increases in electricity bills

* the right to cause energy outages due to overloading the grid, without any accountability

* the right to cause energy outages due to overloading the grid, without any accountability

* rezoning to allow their light and other pollution

* rezoning to allow their light and other pollution

* allowed use of vast numbers of backup diesel generators that risk polluting the local water supply

* allowed use of vast numbers of backup diesel generators that risk polluting the local water supply