Data Centers Everywhere — And America Is Done Being Polite | Shimmy Says
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Support for building a data center nearby collapsed from 43% to 21% in nine months. Opposition hit 71%. That's not a shift in public opinion — it's a revolt.
In this extended episode of Shimmy Says, Alan Shimel argues the American data center backlash isn't anti-AI. It's anti-deal. And he travels from a rancher's property line in Broadview, Montana to Meta's $200 billion Hyperion campus in Louisiana, to Boxtown outside Memphis, to a $2.1 billion Fort Worth facility that will create just 37 permanent jobs — to ask the question the industry doesn't want to answer: What does a community actually get in exchange for hosting the Intelligence Grid?
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