What should also be studied is exactly what data centers are for, and whether or not people are willing to give it all up until better tech emerges. They are meeting a demand that many people are not aware they have, or are unwilling to admit they have.
Let’s Be FrankAOC introduced a bill that would put the brakes on new data centers until Congress can study the environmental, economic and social impact of AI. This should have happened from the very onset of these death traps. The ones that are already operating should be forced to go through the same scrutiny.