{"id":971995,"date":"2025-11-05T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971995"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:53:38","slug":"ai-data-centres-are-propping-up-small-town-america-but-can-the-boom-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/05\/ai-data-centres-are-propping-up-small-town-america-but-can-the-boom-last\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data centres are propping up small-town America &#8211; but can the boom last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, small-town America\u2019s biggest exports were potatoes, boredom, and ambitious kids who couldn\u2019t wait to leave. Then the machines came.<\/p>\n<p>In Umatilla, Oregon \u2014 a dusty town once known for its prison and chemical weapons depot \u2014 Amazon arrived with a server farm the size of an airport. The locals called it \u201cArea 51.\u201d Overnight, the strip clubs gave way to strip malls, and the daughter of Mexican farmhands became a real estate star, selling homes to out-of-town contractors and coders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, small-town America\u2019s biggest exports were potatoes, boredom, and ambitious kids who couldn\u2019t wait to leave. Then the machines came. In Umatilla, Oregon \u2014 a dusty town once known for its prison and chemical weapons depot \u2014 Amazon arrived with a server farm the size of an airport. The locals called it \u201cArea 51.\u201d Overnight, the strip clubs gave way to strip malls, and the daughter of Mexican farmhands became a real estate star, selling homes to out-of-town contractors and coders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}