Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping
THE SO WHAT
An arrest over anti–data center clapping at a public meeting shows how charged local politics around AI infrastructure has become. If you’re planning new compute sites, treat community engagement and narrative management as first-class project workstreams, not afterthoughts to permitting.
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