This Is Server Country: AI, Power, and the Remaking of Rural America (Essential Edition) - Softcover
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A town spoke. Something larger answered.
In September 2025, a township board in rural Michigan voted to reject a data center. Two days later, the developer sued. Within three weeks, the project was approved anyway.
THIS IS SERVER COUNTRY tells - through vivid narrative and clear-eyed analysis - the story of America's largest private infrastructure buildout. A trillion dollars. Six hundred projects. A power grid racing to keep up.
This book follows the people caught in the buildout, explains how the machines actually work, and asks why farmland instead of shuttered factories. It traces the current backward from silicon in Taiwan to sandy loam in Saline-and reveals who builds, who benefits, and who pays, where local zoning meets great-power politics.
The book covers: How AI inference works and why it demands unprecedented compute power. Why data centers choose farmland, not cities. The trillion-dollar capital wave reshaping American infrastructure. State incentive wars and community resistance. The nuclear renaissance and natural gas reality. Export controls and the geopolitics of AI.
The railroads opened the West. The interstates created the suburbs. The AI boom follows the same pattern, at faster speed-but to what end, we know not yet.
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