Data-centre backlash poses a potential speed bump for the AI industry
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The Economist
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This Economist podcast episode examines the growing backlash against data-centre construction and whether it could slow the AI boom. It explores how local planning boards, environmental concerns, and community resistance are pushing back against the rapid buildout of energy-hungry data centres needed to power AI models. The piece weighs the tension between the tech industry's "move fast" ethos and the slower, more deliberative processes of local governance and infrastructure planning.
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Will the data-centre backlash derail the AI boom?
This week, America's planning boards don't believe in moving fast or breaking things
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