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AI Companies, Data Centers Must Defend Themselves—Silence Is No Weapon Against the Exploding Backlash

Artificial intelligence companies and the data centers that power them are devoting mouth-watering sums to achieve their potential. The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Meta, and Amazon are “expected to spend more than $670 billion this year” on capital expenditures. McKinsey & Company forecasts that “global spending on data centers could reach $7 trillion by 2030.”

As this cash cascades, one would expect citizens and politicians to dispatch marching bands and cheerleaders to celebrate these virtually infinite investments and seduce the CEOs who allocate them.

AI firms and data centers would be lucky to be treated like Rodney Dangerfield.

On June 2, voters in Monterey Park, California, approved a permanent moratorium on data centers. It passed 86% to 14%. Interconnected Capital’s database confirms 127 data-center bans in jurisdictions across 40 states, including 11 perpetual prohibitions.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, D-N.Y., have introduced a federal freeze on data centers. Sanders also proposes 50% nationalization of the largest AI companies.

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Some AI haters want blood.

“The ship may have sailed on nonviolence,” said Stop AI activist Sam Kirchner, per Zusha Elinson’s superb expose on anti-AI extremism in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. On April 6, someone fired 13 shots at the home of Indianapolis City Councilman Ron Gibson. A note on his doorstep read: “NO DATA CENTERS.”

Four days later, police say, Daniel Moreno-Gama, hurled a flaming Molotov cocktail at OpenAI........

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