Data Center

A building packed with tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of servers — this is where AI actually "lives." Every time you talk to a chatbot, GPUs are spinning away in a data center somewhere.

Since the AI boom, the race to build these has grown to a national scale. Announcements of trillion-won-level investments keep coming, and because these facilities use as much electricity as a nuclear power plant and consume massive amounts of cooling water, they spark debates over power grids and the environment. That's why "attracting an AI data center" shows up in local economy news, and "electricity bills and power shortages" show up in social news.