The rapid development of data centers to support AI has sparked a grass-roots political backlash, threatening to result in extreme measures such as the ban on data center development imposed by Maine, and is being fueled by rising power bills, politically tone-deaf proposals, and the realization that the power grid is being pushed to the brink of a real crisis of reliability.
We need AI, but the political backlash cannot be ignored
Originally reported by The Hill
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