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Regional Inequality

Outside view of the newly completed Meta's Facebook data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah on July 18, 2024. The data center is a complex of five large buildings each over four football fields long and totaling 2.4 million square feet. (Photo by GEORGE FREY / AFP) (Photo by GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images)

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A photo of many large pipes feeding from one side of the picture to the other. The sky and other parts of a data center can be seen in the background.

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