Most Americans can't see any benefit they'll get from AI data centers but can see AI data centers are very important to the banks and billionaires who constantly fuck them over.
And who are also constantly saying "we're building data centers to fuck you over."
Hardly a surprise they're hated!
Max Kennerly
What do Americans know about AI? Very little, except that CEOs of the AI companies, and high profile proponents of AI, have gleefully promised to put them out of work. Data centers are just proxies for people's anger, because they are tangible.
Elon Green
Genuinely don’t understand what’s happening here - it’s not like there’s been some major data center disaster. It feels like a meme around an issue the public only loosely understands to begin with
Will Stancil
"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months"
lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...
heatmap.news
A new Heatmap Pro poll shows a rapid shift in public opinion since last fall.
