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Jake Higdon

Jake Higdon is the founding director of Advanced Industrial Zones and a fellow with California Forward and Center for Public Enterprise. Previously, he served as a senior advisor for U.S. manufacturing at the Department of Energy, where he built new manufacturing grant and tax credit programs and launched a partnership with the Department of Commerce to foster regional economic clusters. Prior to the DOE, he worked on energy and climate policy at the Environmental Defense Fund, Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, Data for Progress, and the Obama White House. Jake holds an M.P.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill.

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How America Can Put Data Centers in Service of Reindustrialization

Jake Higdon
American communities have begun to reject the construction of local data centers out of concern that they drive up electricity prices without returning durable and diversified job and other economic benefits. Jake Higdon writes that governments concerned about these risks should not only insulate consumers from higher prices, but also demand that data center investments be used to power reindustrialization efforts.

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