See how Big Tech is transforming Spain's landscape

NPR News reports: ZARAGOZA, Spain — Aragon's rugged plains stretch out under a clear blue sky, the buildings visible as "a few tiny cubes sprawled like a throw of dice" across the terrain — as George Orwell wrote in Homage to Catalonia, of his time here during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. Today, excavators eat the earth, carving huge chunks of the landscape in the race to build the behemoths of the AI boom. This drought-stricken region of northeast Spain has become the focus of American companies searching for locations to place their energy- and water-intensive data centers.

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