Rural Residents Foot the Data Center Bill // AIDRAN

The defenders of AI infrastructure have a technically coherent position: centralized data centers are an architectural choice, not an AI inevitability, and the fix is model compression and distributed inference rather than opposition to compute itself ^[1]. That argument was winning in technical communities as recently as eighteen months ago. It is no longer winning where the decisions are being made — in zoning boards, state utility commissions, and the comment periods for large-scale development proposals.

The Locals Who Never Voted for the Data Center Are Paying for It Anyway

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