Dwayne Monroe, a senior cloud consultant with over 20 years in data centers, and Cecilia Rikap, an associate professor in economics, dive into the world of hyperscale data centers. They discuss how tech giants like Amazon and Google are reshaping local economies and the environment with their insatiable resource demands. The impact on communities, including legal battles over water consumption and the push for transparency, raises critical questions about the future we want. Is the growth of cloud computing and its consequences sustainable?