We no longer have the ability to govern ourselves, and the people who do have the ability are using it to destroy our civilization. This all ends in technofascism or luddite terrorism (or a mix of both). I can't see any other outcomes...
" The $16 billion data center... was flat-out rejected by both the town’s board and its planning commission in September. But those votes turned out to be only minor bumps on the project’s path: The developer quickly sued, the town settled, and the construction vehicles rolled in."
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A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began
The AI boom is coming for rural America. Inside one town's effort to fight backSharon Goldman (Yahoo Finance)