Chloe Jad

3 days ago | post-gazette.com | Chloe Jad |Evan Robinson-Johnson

Pennsylvania’s newest data center doesn’t have its computers yet, so on opening day visitors were offered virtual-reality headsets that filled the empty data hall with rows and rows of sleek black cabinets and bundles of blue and green wires running along the black ceiling. The inside of a data center might seem boring to some and mythical to others, often sheltered away in rural areas and not a place most people have gone. But they are, in fact, ubiquitous and growing.