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Is this a uniquely American situation or are other major players building out AI infrastructure facing hash backlash? Like is there big issues around data centers in the UK, Israel, China, or India as well?
There's a fight against them up here in Canada, but the US really is trying to speed run the heat death of the world
The data centers in the US are going up at such a speed that there is little to no public feedback allowed on any proposals. Once built the data center only provides a single digit number of jobs while raising the price of electricity in the region (typically by a very significant increase) and creating a low level audio hum that is below human hearing but still causes physiological effects.
The end result is American data centers ignore the public, cost them more money, provides no benefit, and physically hurts the community while operational. Most European data centers have to contend with build codes and councils, paying specific attention to community impact. Not in America. They just go up and make everything else cost more.
That's a fair take. Any similarity or difference to the US's primary AI competitor (China)? I've seen the EU is now concerned by the US lead on AI and may possibly slide on regulations a little to play catch-up but that's yet to be seen.
America also seems to be placing these based on local tax situations, not local resources or community impact. Since China is more centrallized, I'd imagine they place them with a different strategy.
Its just a more developed problem in the U. S. Because the industry is bigger and further along. Its coming everywhere (barring a pop).
I also feel like we might not be hearing the whole situation from other countries with tighter media regulations.
Control the media.
Suppress any mention of new datacenters.
No backlash.
"Hash backlash" is a great tagline for people disliking datacenters. Too bad they're not actually doing any cryptography lol