{"id":795284,"date":"2026-07-31T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795284\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:21:17","slug":"cities-not-rural-areas-power-the-digital-infrastructure-of-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795284\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities, not rural areas, power the digital infrastructure of the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher\u2019s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.<\/p>\n<p>This is a summary of: Ancona, C. et al. Urban infrastructure and fossil fuel industrial legacy drive US data center siting. Nat. Cities <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s44284-026-00487-z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s44284-026-00487-z<\/a> (2026).<\/p>\n<p>M.P. used Grammarly to help prepare their contribution to this Research Briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Publisher\u2019s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,4017,40439,32533,22022,337691,40279,3,4323,79,40438,74,60339,40441,21,19,22,20,40443,40440,40442,25,24],"class_list":["post-795284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-cities","tag-civil-engineering","tag-countries","tag-energy-infrastructure","tag-energy-justice","tag-geography","tag-news","tag-regions","tag-science","tag-sustainable-architecture-green-buildings","tag-technology","tag-technology-and-society","tag-towns","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-urban-economics","tag-urban-geography-urbanism-inc-megacities","tag-urban-studies-sociology","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}