Infrastructure for America (IFA), a 501(c)(4), brings facts, evidence, and context to the data center conversation for policymakers, media, and communities.
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Data centers generate significant tax revenue that can deliver meaningful benefits for communities, often supporting schools, police departments, and other public services.
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A former school board official in Ohio makes the case for data centers.
Jobs, tax revenue, and real impact for towns that faced declining opportunities for years.
“Data centers won’t replace everything we’ve lost. But they are the kind of future worth building toward.”
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Read the full op ed here: salemnews.net/opinion/letter…
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A Michigan data center is expected to provide a $300 million net benefit to other @DTE_Energy customers by paying more of the grid’s fixed costs.
Yes, data centers can reduce your energy bill.
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We have an opportunity to do data centers the right way and get the economic and security gains of doing so. Let’s not mess up this moment.
“There's a race to power, a speed to power right now, where all the AI companies are in a race to train up their models to win the AI arms race, they call it,” says University of Texas professor Michael Webber. cbsn.ws/4xBP3HE
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60 Minutes got a lot wrong about data centers.
But on water use? 🎯
Read more: infraforamerica.com/what-60-…
🚨 Even 60 Minutes admits it: Data centers don’t use nearly as much water as critics would have you believe.
CBS News found that golf courses nationwide use more than twice as much water as data centers.
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Read this analysis by Infrastructure For America for a detailed analysis of last night's #datacenter hit piece by @60Minutes and @CBSNews : infraforamerica.com/what-60-…
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What @60Minutes Got Wrong and Right About Data Centers
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60 Minutes says "electricity bills have surged" in northern Virginia.
But electricity prices in Virginia are lower than the national average.
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Here's one they got right:
@60Minutes says "A CBS news analysis found golf courses nationwide use more than twice as much water as data centers."
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IFA will be watching 👀and separating fact from fiction.
The right and left agree on almost nothing these days, except growing opposition to data centers. 60 Minutes’ @NorahODonnell travels to rural Texas to examine the AI data center boom and the tensions it’s creating. Tonight.
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Panic about data centers “is leading communities to forgo massive amounts of tax revenue—largely because of threats that are inflated, confused, and sometimes nonexistent,” @AndyMasley argues. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Homeowners in America’s data center capital would pay $5,800 MORE a year in property taxes without the booming industry, according to one tax expert.
As AI fuels a nationwide data center race, this county offers a surprising look at what the boom could mean for homeowners.
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An inconvenient truth for data center doomers.
“If you take all of the AI data centers put together, it’s only a fraction of the emissions from uncovered landfills in the world.” - @algore
Gore downplays AI threats and touts its climate potential ft.trib.al/mum2vhl
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"Prysmian’s over $1 billion North Carolina expansion will more than double the company’s U.S. fiber-optic production capacity and create hundreds of jobs in the Charlotte region, driven by the AI data center infrastructure boom."
Inside a Charlotte-area manufacturer’s $1B expansion to feed AI data center boom charlotteobserver.com/news/b…
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MYTH: Data centers are taking up too much of our farmland.
FACT: Data centers make up < 0.17% of the nation's total acreage (~4M acres), and very few are built on land previously used for agriculture.
More facts from @grgibert supertalk.fm/gibert-separati…
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