No Data Centers in My Backyard
🌻 no data centers in my backyardmoney, power, and populism in the AI buildoutJasmine SunAug 03, 202654677139ShareDriving 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.
- ▪🌻 no data centers in my backyardmoney, power, and populism in the AI buildoutJasmine SunAug 03, 202654677139ShareDriving 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.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 26 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Enabling the next generation of AI data centers — TechRadar
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Front Page) |
| Canonical URL | https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard |
| Publication time | Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:38:57 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-05T11:10:42.024Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-05T11:10:42.024Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Cluster | rAjdni7oCkQc · 2 stories |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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🌻 no data centers in my backyardmoney, power, and populism in the AI buildoutJasmine SunAug 03, 202654677139ShareDriving 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 the most visible, physical manifestations of the AI boom.
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