People are fighting back
in odd ways though to keep DC's out. Story /. reported on where U Michigan wanted to drop a DC on a small area outside campus. Did not turn out well. https://www.404media.co/township-fights-nuclear-weapons-data-center-by-passing-a-moratorium-on-electrical-infrastructure/ Creative idea. Enough to slow it down and possibly get them to move it to more friendly area.
I do think the hype has to pass. For most people, their money outflow is fixed. They pay rent, groceries, insurance, clothes, entertainment, ... There is no "AI" slice. And yet for AI to be successful, AI is going to need a large slice of that pie. That slice doesn't exist. Family budgets are zero sum things, short a raise. And lately inflation has eaten more than the raise(assuming they didn't get laid off due to AI), so families are switching to private labels instead of the P&G, Starbucks, ... label.
