Americans hate data centers. Tech needs them
Source: Fortune ·
Though the midterms have been dubbed “the AI election” and a resounding repudiation of tech, it’s hard to tell what all this practically means.
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Though the midterms have been dubbed “the AI election” and a resounding repudiation of tech, it’s hard to tell what all this practically means. There’s a whole lot that’s clear, to be sure. The blue wave was massive, and in part that wave traces back to serious anti-tech sentiment, especially around data centers. It’s worth pinning this down clearly: Americans, right now, overwhelmingly hate data centers. A Gallup and UMass Amherst poll from earlier this year said that more than 70% of Americans oppose data center construction, and the Democrats capitalized (Democrats in over 130 federal and gubernatorial races ran anti-tech or anti-data center ads). Now, consider: Perhaps the greatest open question around Anthropic, on the eve of its historic IPO, is something like “Can they get enough compute, and can they manage the costs of that process?” The wishes of American voters seem to be on a collision course with the answers that Anthropic (and the AI boom) are looking for. It gets…
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