Also the unforced error around NDAs and attempts at bypassing environmental and other reviews. People don’t like the idea of their local elected officials bypassing the rules in the dark.

I understand these companies want to move fast, but this seems to be one of those cases where going slow gets you there faster.

That can't be true. People obviously believe DCs have big local impact and it really does affect their power bills at least.

The global impact of AI doesn't change when you force DCs to build in another area.

The noise issues seem real, but don’t impact whole cities

I live in northern va and I can tell you that histeria is about ballooning electric and other bills. vast majority of population is unfortunately “not there” in regards to any unrest about AI