Welcome to The Newsfeed.

Cheap hydropower Cheap land That's what drew Microsoft and other tech companies to Quincy, Washington, back in 2006.

And it kicked off a data center boom that's reshaped the small city.

We sat down with two mayors to talk about how data centers have shaped the town over the last two decades.

Out among the rolling hills of Quincy power lines cascade across fields of crops feeding into rows of long, low white buildings.

Inside servers hum away.

Along with reshaping the landscape the data center boom has also given the city's economy a real boost.

When I first got on city council we were 25 years behind on all our streets and roads and infrastructure.

Now we're kind of caught up.

Along with freshly paved roads added tax revenue has helped fund new police and fire stations, a hospital, city hall and a recreation center.

Because they've been good partners.

They all have top notch people come and they ask What can we do?

How can we help?

Of course there's benefits, but it's not You've got to you have to weigh the the risks, right?

It changes the character of the community.

It had been a food processing town.

Now it's controlled by people that you know, larger corporations that aren't even really present Larger data centers are being planned here in Washington and across the country to support artificial intelligence.

The word is out that AI is going to consume substantially I mean, orders of magnitude I mean power, right?

And then there's still the unknown of water consumption.

Still ahead, we look at what's coming next for data center growth and the personal toll it's taking on residents.

I'm Paris Jackson, thank you for watching The Newsfeed.