Ann Vaughan

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 902: The Pros, Cons, and Complications of Data Centers · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And if you go back, you will find some pushback from a few years ago.

I think that the scale just had not hit people.

And so this AI boom has gone through several stages.

And, you know, at first it was just like,

What is this AI thing?

What is ChatGPT?

It's going to change everything.

And then there was this stage when I was actually still working as an investment analyst where everyone was saying, how much power are we going to need?

And where is it going to go?

And, you know, the financial and energy and tech types were mobilizing.

And everyone was saying, can we really use this much power?

Then there was like maybe in the fall of last year,

an absolute panic over whether AI was a bubble and whether we're spending too much because at that stage, everyone was really focused on how much the tech guys were going to be spending and, you know, every quarter and how they had gone from just being so cash rich to spending, you know, a great deal of their cash flow.

And so all during that time, the, you know, wildcatters that were trying to put AI together and find places to put it

were going to communities and starting to make plans for data centers.

And individual communities were having meetings and saying, what do we think about this?

But

The populace in general is not super engaged on their local community level.

We've kind of turned polarized and less local news to consume anyway in the digital age, sadly.

And people have whatever they're concerned about on the national level.

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