Americans don't know how to fight AI. So they're fighting data centers (vox.com) AI

A Vox analysis argues that American opposition to AI data centers is less about the facilities’ local nuisances than about broader public dread of AI and the lack of credible federal policy for managing AI’s economic and social risks, driving people to use local moratoria as a stand-in lever. The piece also contends that environmental arguments for blocking data-center expansion are often overstated and says the real solution is a wider national debate and regulation that protects and expands human agency as AI spreads.