‘This is not an anti-tech town’: backlash to datacenter in city once home to IBM
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Local resistance in a town built on IBM shows that AI data centers are now a political project as much as an engineering one. If your roadmap depends on new compute sites, budget time and money for community negotiation the same way you do for power and water.
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