US politics
fromThe Atlantic
14 hours agoThe AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly
AI is increasingly framed as a threat to workers, with bipartisan political concern, local resistance to data centers, and occasional violent backlash.
Monterey Park residents describe their predominantly Asian and Hispanic city as peaceful and quiet, with a convenient location in the San Gabriel Valley near to downtown Los Angeles. The intense data center backlash is prompted by an Australian asset manager's proposed project, a 247,000-square-foot site for computer servers that would also include a new electrical substation and, to stave off power interruptions, around a dozen diesel generators.