Summary

Santa Teresa, New Mexico, is in the extreme southeastern corner of the state, not far from El Paso, Texas, and Cuidad Juárez in Mexico. Most readers have probably never heard of it, but today it is ground zero in the fight between local residents and the owners of a massive data center designed to feed the insatiable appetite of artificial intelligence for computing power.

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