How tech became the villain of the US midterms
by Nick Robins-Early from Technology | The Guardian on (#797JS)
Datacenters, AI and distaste for the billionaires developing it has soured Americans on big tech
The campaign ad begins with a clear, idyllic stream that suddenly turns sludge-brown as two concrete datacenters slam on to its banks. Another facility thuds down on a peaceful suburban park, and two more crush-green pastures as an ominous soundtrack to a disaster movie blares.
They're coming for our rivers. Our neighborhoods. Our farmland," a deep-voiced narrator says. Because Brent Taylor wrote the law allowing datacenters to take over Tennessee."
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