Data center backlash and AI opposition are separate tracks — for now, warns Scholars_Stage
naval · x · 2026-09-11
ScholarsStage observes that the data center backlash (power, land, noise) has so far run on entirely separate tracks from opposition to AI itself, but he does not expect that separation to hold — the two opposition movements are likely to merge.
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