Financing the AI Buildout: Can AI Help Communities Navigate the Data Center Boom?

Summary

The Brookings article asks whether artificial intelligence could help communities navigate complex challenges associated with the US data center boom. Its available extract identifies financing the AI buildout and community decision-making as the central subject, but does not provide the proposed approach, evidence, findings, or answer. The article is attributed to Jacob Taylor, Scott E. Page, Kershlin Krishna, Adam Aley, Vivek Ramakrishnan, Sarah Mills, Joshua Becker, Eirini Malliaraki, Fahd Husain, Sanjay Purohit, and additional co-authors, and is dated September 30, 2026.