Bloomberg Podcast: How the AI Industry Missed the Data Center Backlash Entirely
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-23
Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast hosts independent writer Jasmine Sun to discuss how the AI industry was blindsided by opposition to data center construction.
- AI builders have long worried about job losses and rogue AI, but missed the most publicly salient issue: how upset people would be about data centers.
- Data center construction used to be uncontroversial in the US, with states offering tax incentives — now the mood has flipped completely.
- Sun did on-the-ground reporting in Wisconsin and Michigan on communities and activists trying to stop data center development, explaining what the pushback means and what developers must do to be welcomed.
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