What Robert Reich thinks about data centers

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American economist, professor and political commentator; US Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 under Bill Clinton; professor of public policy at UC Berkeley; author of Saving Capitalism (2015).

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1. 22 Oct 2026

   Our readingAI data centres are hastening climate change.

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   Their wordsThe barons are also hastening climate change through the data centers’ exponential energy and water demands, along with the expansion and resurrection of fossil fuel infrastructure to power AI.

   ↗Why America Hates the Billionaire Barons of Big Techrobertreich.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece