Data centers, a newer form of infrastructure used by many of the largest technology companies to store, share, and manage the distribution of data, lack regulatory precedent in the United States. They elicit 3 main concerns: constraining resources and thus increasing the cost of utilities, primarily energy, but including water, the degradation of the natural environment, including human health and ecological wildlife due to air pollution and land use, and an apparent lack of transparency in reporting, thus harming community quality of life.