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Investigation Wins Polk Award For Data-Center Reporting
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Business Insider received the George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting on Wednesday for its investigation 'The Trust Cost of Data Centers,' which examined economic, environmental and financing impacts of AI data centers. The reporting highlighted Amazon and Alphabet's planned AI infrastructure spending of $200 billion and $185 billion respectively, financing innovations, and growing public costs as states compete for data-center investments.
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