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afandrew··on America on Data Centers: listen to 10,000+ city council comments
Water issue was brought up the most, but that doesn't mean it's actually true. I think for most data center development projects, the claims of water use are incredibly exaggerated/false. For American Sentiment we're just aggregating what residents said, rather than judging whether it's accurate or not. If anything it goes to show that the AI labs have down an awful job communicating with the general public; there are real downsides/concerns, but this one should be a lay up for them to clear up, and yet they haven't.
afandrew··on America on Data Centers: listen to 10,000+ city council comments
This is Andrew, Founder/CEO of Prophecy Gov (AI agents for city governments). We operate American Sentiment.

Our main focus is building AI tools that serve city staff. We also create data from public, online data sources; in this case city council videos.

Data center development has reached a fever pitch nationwide. We started American Sentiment to help AI leaders, researchers, and the public better understand and respond to local sentiment nationwide.

The American Sentiment on Flock Safety is next!

Analysis: https://x.com/andrewfang/status/2117048211051532555

Findings include:

-73% of meetings had 0 people speaking in favor of data centers.

-Water use was the #1 issue. And only 1 in 5 comments mention AI!

-Elon Musk was mentioned more than Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Kevin O'Leary combined.

-Data center opposition is heavily bipartisan.