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> that would on average benefit the local community.

The AI boosters appear to have badly failed in convincing local communities of this.

Perhaps they should have started off with an informative AI positive PR campaign rather than ... whatever it was that put local communities off the notion.

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The heads of the big AI labs do seem to be pretty catastrophically bad at PR, I do agree. But this is hacker news, I thought we were meant to care about and look at the facts and not get swayed by the PR?

But what are the facts here? What is the benefit to the local community?

The facts will depend on each individual datacenter proposal. I'm not saying they all should be built or that none should be built, but that each one should be based on understanding of what each proposal entails that is grounded in reality as opposed to emotive broad-strokes generalisations that are either false in general or not necessarily true for every example, and ideally the tools available in the decision making process empower the former and not the latter.

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