Christopher Kahn
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267 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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He described these technologies.
Technologies as a proxy for people's frustration over how these technologies are affecting their lives and how they might in the future.
But these are also, like you mentioned, local issues affecting communities with very local concerns about pollution and surveillance.
So it's it's a balance of these local and national concerns.
But it's also important to keep in mind that a lot, much of the backlash here, both about flying.
cameras and data centers is around the way that they were introduced.
Some people didn't realize a data center was being built in their community until construction began.
Some of that is because large tech companies have had officials signing non-disclosure agreements.
And similarly many communities introduced flock cameras without any prior public notice or community input.
So people I spoke with said they felt these companies like Meta, OpenAI, Amazon,
on Flock and others and some of some of which are valued in the trillions of dollars kind of bulldozed their way into their communities so they feel it's kind of a almost a David and and Goliath story.
And when you talk to people who are in these council meetings, residents or or activists speaking out against these technologies.
Yeah, so data centers have become a major issue that President Trump has had to address.
Uh, he has been a vocal supporter at AI and data centers since returning to office.
Uh, you'll remember that Silicon Valley's biggest tech CEOs were standing behind him during his inauguration, including Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Recently, President Trump has said that communities should want data centers.
Unless they want to quote, be backwards and poor.
He's argued that allowing foreign adversaries like China to outpace the US in developing AI could be a risk to national security.
But his administration has been very supportive of AI despite the growing backlash.
So the EPA recently announced plans to eliminate a requirement that states publicize and ask for public.
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