Local Backlash Turns AI into Tax Fight // AIDRAN

The shift in how AI infrastructure opposition is framed did not come from a think tank or a legislative push — it came from residents in Utah who found a more effective vocabulary. The case against Kevin O'Leary's Stratos project lands not on carbon footprints but on who pays for the power lines and who gives up water rights ^[8]. That pivot from environmental harm to public subsidy is what makes the opposition more durable than previous cycles of AI infrastructure criticism — it does not ask audiences to weigh…

AI Infrastructure Finds Its Political Enemy in Local Backlash

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