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When 2,000 people sign a petition against a data center, the AI industry has a new answer. It is not about your water. It is not about your electricity bill. It is about Beijing.
A company wants to build a data center fifty yards from some of the rarest animals on Earth. No environmental study. No conversation with the zoo. Just a permit application and a promise that everything will be fine.
71% of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area according to a new Gallup poll. Maine just became the first state to ban them entirely. The industry's response tells you everything about how rattled they are.
AI data centers consumed billions of gallons of drinking water last year in communities that had no say in the decision. This is the water story the industry hopes you never do the math on.
The same compression that turned a refrigerator-sized computer into a fingernail-sized chip will happen to AI data centers. Someone needs to ask why we are draining aquifers for infrastructure that will be obsolete before the saguaro grows its first arm.
Three billionaires called the President and killed a safety rule that 80% of Americans supported. No crime was committed. No law was broken. That is the AI industrial complex operating in its normal mode.
A US general described fully autonomous AI weapons as ghoulish and disturbing. Then said America had no choice but to build them anyway. That single sentence is the entire argument for why the AI arms race cannot regulate itself.
