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The survey of 10,548 adults run July 20 to August 9 also found half saying data centers are bad for home energy costs (up from 38%), 49% saying they hurt nearby quality of life (up from 30%), and 60% uncomfortable with one nearby. Local permitting is turning into a real constraint on compute buildout, and that curve moved 15 points in six months.
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CNN reported August 6 that despite 71% of Americans opposing datacenters in a recent Gallup poll, local opposition isn't the binding constraint. Labor is. Goldman Sachs puts the historical on-time delivery rate at ~72%, but only roughly half of AI compute slated to activate be...
The NRSC sent a memo titled "Ohio Data Center Risk" on August 18, arguing Sherrod Brown has made data centers his de facto opponent against Sen. Jon Husted, and that campaigns can't fix the toxic brand of an entire segment of the economy. The supporting numbers: Gallup finds 7...
Fortune reported from the September 5 gathering at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, where Altman called AI "incredible magic of intelligence in a bottle" while hundreds protested outside over data center pollution, water use and employment claims. An Economist/YouGov poll foun...
CNBC reported August 21 that the forthcoming filing will name AI backlash, specifically opposition to data center construction, as a key risk factor. CFO Krishna Rao has been holding test-the-water meetings in San Francisco fielding questions on competition, margin pressure fr...
The roughly 50 billion yuan raise was expected to close by end of August, with a syndicate including China's national AI fund, NetEase, JD.com, IDG Capital, Loyal Valley, Shixiang Capital and Monolith Management. Proceeds go to R&D and a compute buildout, and the company could...
The compute starts serving Anthropic traffic in late 2027 (TechCrunch). It's the largest in a run of deals over eight months: $10B with Volta in August, $5B with AMD in July, a reported $1.25B monthly from SpaceX in May, 5 additional gigawatts from Amazon in April. The lead ti...
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