Feel like the proportions matter and the buildout is mostly for training and hosting LLMs. Data centers are local politics. individual preferences carry weight. The data center backlash is an AI and big tech backlash focused on the one place where government is responsive
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒To defend data centers directly, they are used for: (1) weather modeling (2) content moderation (3) research on robotics (4) pharmaceutical research (5) basic science research (6) task automation Allowing them to be built lets us do more of these things by making the price of such things cheaper.