Clay Electric CEO: Data center builders scouting area

“They’re loud,” Clay Electric CEO Andy Chaff said of data centers. “Nobody wants to build one really in the middle of town. All those servers make quite a bit of noise. They try to get somewhere where they can get 300 to 500 acres and build it in the middle, so they don’t have to worry about the noise pollution.”

BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected]  The CEO of Clay Electric Cooperative said data center builders are scouting potential locations in its coverage area. Andy Chaff told the Keystone Heights Rotary Club that one data center could consume the electricity equivalent of 50,000 to 100,000 homes. “We don’t have that much capacity out there,” Chaff said of…

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