With perhaps the most important election day in American history looming mere weeks from now, a new threat is changing the traditional calculus of climate change politics between Democrats and Republicans – the headlong rush among tech giants to build massive data centres for their AI development.
Grassroots communities in almost every US state are rising up to protest the sudden planning and construction of these massive complexes, arguing that their unquantified use of electric power, as well as local water supplies to cool their systems is a devastating environmental threat. What bothers the locals in particular is the secrecy behind the projects, which only adds to rising suspicions about AI.
