“Data Center on the Prairie”

In Tennessee, the digital future is merging with the ecological past.

Clarksville, where Google has a data center, is home to a fragile ecosystem that has vanished across America: grasslands. What if we could use large campuses like data centers to transform land back into long-lost prairies — restoring ecological diversity and an important piece of American history? Dwayne Estes of the Southeastern Grasslands Institute is dedicating his life to making that a reality.

Learn more about the Clarksville data center in Montgomery County, Tennessee.

After you listen to the episode, watch the documentary about grasslands restoration at Google’s data center.