Open your phone and check your screen time. That number — whatever it is — is part of the reason data centers are being proposed in neighborhoods across Middle Tennessee.
Last year, Americans spent an average of more than 5 hours a day on their phones, up from 4.5 hours the year before, according to Harmony Healthcare IT. Multiplied across millions of people, that appetite for data is exactly what is being satisfied in communities around Nashville as new data centers pop up.
Lipscomb University Cybersecurity and AI professor Ken Mayer has questions about one proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo…