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US data center backlash: OpenAI calls it culture war, author says it's power

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US data center backlash: OpenAI calls it culture war, author says it's power

An OpenAI executive described the backlash against data centers as a "proxy for social anxiety" — a culture war — while the author, visiting Virginia's "Data Center Alley", the world's largest data center cluster, concluded the core issue is physical: enormous electricity demand.

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