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Artificial intelligence
fromtheregister
16 hours ago

Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

Over 70% of Americans oppose building AI datacenters nearby, driven by concerns about water, power constraints, pollution, and quality-of-life impacts.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Klas: AI has turned Bernie and DeSantis into unlikely allies

Vermont's Democratic Socialist senator and Florida's right-wing governor want to slam the brakes on the hundreds of resource-intensive new facilities springing up across the country to power the artificial intelligence industry. And both point to profits, not the public good, as the real factor motivating the boom. In many ways, the convergence was inevitable. Public wariness about the data-center industry is growing, and politicians could no longer ignore the outcry. Public skepticism of AI is also ubiquitous.
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