The AI Industry Is Failing to Make Its Case to the Neighborhoods It's Trying to Move Into
There's a truism among large-scale developers of real estate: Everybody loves growth, if you pay them to. Residents won't leave to allow for demolition of an existing building? Pay the holdouts to leave. Your mining project is getting local pushback? Employ the townsfolk to work in the mine.
But what do you do if you want to impose a major development project on a community, but that project has no spare income with which to pay off your opponents, and produces too few jobs to employ them?
That's the situation facing the American AI industry, which is desperate to find places suitable for physical expansion. Whenever a company finds a community with the right layout, power infrastructure, and local politics, it almost immediately faces grassroots pushback.
The trend is likely to continue. A newly released Gallup surveyhas powerfully confirmed what we already knew: Americans hate AI data centers. What's...
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