{"id":86306,"date":"2026-09-10T08:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86306"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:19:17","slug":"amazing-backlash-against-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/amazing-backlash-against-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Backlash Against A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">The popular uprising against data centers has emerged so suddenly that politicians stumble over their own pitchforks racing to the front of the crowd. Where most industries would be launching into crisis P.R. mode, perhaps even engaging in some soul-searching, artificial intelligence companies seem determined to plow full steam ahead, building the future they want, even if they\u2019re the only ones who want it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">The outrage over data centers can\u2019t really be about environmental impact. These structures have always been water-sucking, power-draining, forest-clearing eyesores, yet the\u00a0<a class=\"css-povzk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/documents\/0eee4c34-9746-492b-babe-116e433209d1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent plunge<\/a>\u00a0in support for them is three times as deep as the one that nuclear power plants faced in the year after Three Mile Island. What has changed is people\u2019s awareness of what\u2019s going on inside: artificial intelligence.\u00a0<a class=\"css-povzk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2025\/04\/03\/public-and-expert-predictions-for-ais-next-20-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Less than a quarter of Americans<\/a>\u00a0expect A.I. to have a positive impact on K-12 education, arts and entertainment, how people do their jobs, the economy, personal relationships or happiness over the next 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: The popular uprising against data centers has emerged so suddenly that politicians stumble over their.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86307,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86306\/revisions\/86307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}