No Data Centers In My Backyard - by Jasmine Sun
jasmi.news · 6,839 words · saved by 14 readers
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
saved by
- Jaclyn
- Linda
- Emma Guo
- Kristie Huang
- Aryan Naik
- Aileen Luo
- Arielle Lok
- Lydia Nottingham
- Matthew Lee
- Kavish Garg
- Julia Wu
- Khushi Wadhwa
related reading
- No Data Centers In My Backyardjasmi.news
- No Data Centers In My Backyardsubstack.com
- My week with the AI populists: A DC report - by Jasmine Sunjasmi.news
- The data center is a symboltransformernews.ai
- are you high-agency or an NPC? - by Jasmine Sunjasmi.news
- Fast, scalable, clean, and cheap enoughoffgridai.us
- Turning the data center boom into long-term, local prosperity | Brookingsbrookings.edu
- AI Populism's Warning Shotsjasmi.news
- The data center is a symbolsubstack.com
- IIIa. Racing to the Trillion-Dollar Cluster - SITUATIONAL AWARENESSsituational-awareness.ai
- When Democracy Can’t Steer, It Grabs the Brakenomadsvagabonds.substack.com
- Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policylincolninst.edu