Climate Change
The AI Data Center Boom Comes to Vernon
While nationwide, neighborhoods have fought to keep the electricity- and water-hungry data centers away, Vernon is welcoming another data center, seemingly without opposition.
At the corner of 48th Street and Santa Fe Avenue in industrial Vernon, a three-story building looms large among rumbling factories and warehouses. Long, vertical, tinted windows with green outlines punctuate the two-acre structure’s grey and white facade–all in the service of keeping its tenants cool inside. Its tenants aren’t people, but giant servers, storage drives and networking equipment.