Ai

I carry a phone that runs on models trained inside buildings full of GPUs, and most days I have agents running in the background, working through tasks on their own. So, in all likelihood, do most of the people showing up at zoning meetings to stop the next one of those buildings from getting constructed down the road. That’s the strange thing about the current fight over AI data centers: the people who want the output and the people who don’t want the building are often the same person, just standing in different rooms on different nights. We want the smartphone, the search engine, and the agent that can go off and finish a task on its own, and we don’t want the thing that makes them possible anywhere near our water table, our power bill, or our bedroom window. ...