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AI data centers are physical objects with real footprints: power infrastructure, cooling systems, and parcels of land inside someone's congressional district. That visibility has made them political.
This election cycle, data center concerns have become a major election issue, and Meta has reached a landmark settlement in a social media case.
Two distinct anxieties about technology are arriving at the same political destination.
The data center as a ballot-box issue The compute required by modern AI systems needs to live somewhere, and that somewhere is a large, power-hungry facility that draws from the local grid and occupies local land.
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