A new artificial intelligence data center is under construction in Glencoe, with city leaders calling it an economic opportunity and some residents questioning its impact on the community.
The facility is being built at 670 11th St. W. on Glencoe’s western edge. According to Revolve Labs, the project spans about 6.25 acres and nearly 94,100 square feet across three buildings.
According to Revolve Labs, the facility will support artificial intelligence computing. The company says the data center will handle AI “inference,” the computing that happens when artificial intelligence systems generate responses. In project materials, the company compares that work to technology used by tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.
One resident, who asked not to be identified, said he believes residents should have had more say before the project moved forward.
“That was just terrible. We should have been able to vote on it,” he said. “Everybody that I’ve talked to, they’re all up in arms about it.”
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