American growers, ranchers and major agricultural companies are increasingly warning that the AI-driven data center boom is consuming too much farmland and water, opening a new front of resistance in rural communities. The concern, laid out in reporting on the industry, centers on the conversion of productive agricultural land, competition over electricity and water resources, and heightened risks in drought-prone regions.
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