{"id":456,"date":"2026-01-07T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/the-people-tracking-americas-ai-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:00:13","slug":"the-people-tracking-americas-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/the-people-tracking-americas-ai-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"The People Tracking America&#8217;s AI Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We start this week with Matthew\u2019s story about an organization tracking the location of AI data centers around the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. After the break, Jason tells us all about what Grok got up to over the holiday break, and we ruminate on what the breakdown in the information ecosystem means. 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