What the AI Industry Got Wrong About Public Backlash

Even those within the AI industry have been very anxious about the technology. Worries about its potential to create destabilizing job losses, or rogue AI that could lead to human extinction. But for all their anxiety, they missed the thing that's become the most publicly salient: how upset people would be about data centers. Data center construction has been happening for a long time, and it used to be relatively uncontroversial. In fact, cities and states would often design their tax code t...