KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A professor at the University of Tennessee plans on using grant money to study the impact of data centers in the southeast, including Tennessee.
Gabe Schwartzman, assistant professor of human geography, is a co-principal investigator of a project funded by a $1 million Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant.
The project is set to span three years, and it is designed to track and monitor the development of data centers in Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia and their impacts on rural communities…