No Data Centers In My Backyard - by Jasmine Sun
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money, power, and populism in the AI buildout
🌻 no data centers in my backyard money, power, and populism in the AI buildout Jasmine Sun Aug 03, 2026 442 68 118 Share Driving in Wisconsin feels like cruising through Eden. It is unimaginably green given the heat-wave summer. There are fields of corn and clover blossoms and Queen Anne’s lace; in the temperate evenings, fireflies trace and weave star-trails between cottonwood trunks. Everyone we meet is generous, warmhearted, ready to show us the meaning of “Midwestern nice” one free beer at a time. In those halcyon environs, the data centers land like a spaceship crash. Data centers are th
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