Meta warns election backlash could hinder AI expansion
Original title: Meta’s warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harder
Midterm election results may complicate building data centers for AI due to community pushback.
Meta President Dina Powell McCormick said that the Democratic wins in the midterm elections are going to make it a lot harder for companies to build data centers. Speaking at the WSJ Tech conference on Wednesday, the Meta exec pointed out that the backlash against data centers was also tied to people’s feelings about AI technology overall. Meta believes it could turn around the negative consumer sentiment around AI if it is able to demonstrate the value, not only of the data centers coming to local communities, but in the technology itself.
- Meta has data centers in 23 states.
- Five of them are planned as projects of one gigawatt or more.
- Meta pays for its own electricity and directs tax surpluses toward teachers and first responders.
- Successful projects keep the labor force local and get bipartisan support.
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Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
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