VR pioneer Jaron Lanier says Silicon Valley is sabotaging itself by poorly pitching AI and treating areas designated for data centers as sacrifice zones
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Lanier’s critique that AI is being sold badly and that data center regions are treated as “sacrifice zones” is a warning that social license for AI infra is not guaranteed. If you’re planning large-scale compute or data projects, community impact and narrative design are now core execution risks, not PR afterthoughts.
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