Required Reading

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Week 6

Citation:

Gustafson, E. (2025). AI Data Centers in the United States: A Media Framing Analysis. Florida Communication Journal, 50(2), 66–88.

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Week 5

Fist read HB507: https://le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/static/HB0507.html

Then read the only coverage about this bill so far:

Citation:

Peterson, E. (2026, April 28). Critics say Utah law gives unelected developers too much taxing power. The Utah Investigative Journalism Project. https://www.utahinvestigative.org/critics-say-utah-law-gives-unelected-developers-too-much-taxing-power/

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Week 4

Citation:

Kellgreen, A. (2026). The Elephant in the Desert:

The Present and Future of Utah Data Centers. Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy. https://wilkescenter.utah.edu/spotlight/elephant-in-the-desert/

Week 3

Citation:

Kunkel, C. (2026). Will the Data Center Boom Make the Climate Go Bust? New Labor Forum (Sage Publications Inc.), 35(2), 82–89. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10957960261437086

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Week 2

Citation:

Pan Fang, T., & Greenstein, S. (2025). Where the Cloud Rests: The Economic Geography of Data Centers. Strategy Science (INFORMS), 10(4), 404–420. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/stsc.2024.0225

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Week 1

Citation:

Punari, R. H., Arifin, K., Mansor Ali, M. X., Ayub, K., Abas, A., & Mansor, A. J. (2026). Reframing Data Center Fire Safety as a Socio-Technical Reliability System: A Systematic Review. Fire, 9(4), 151-181. https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/9/4/151

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