Dana El-Kurd
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And public organizers and protesters are much easier to target than the small minority of people that actually end up committing violent crimes.
Wired reported that federal, state, and local agencies are gathering and circulating intelligence about alleged threats to data centers.
The intelligence documents that Wired quotes from outline a variety of threat actors and models, not simply data center protests.
Quote, adversarial actors, including state-sponsored entities, criminal groups, and extremists, such as homegrown violent extremists or environmental extremists, may target U.S.
data centers.
These actors could also exploit the strategic importance of data centers to the U.S.
economy, using them for activities like cryptocurrency mining or leveraging third party entities such as front companies to gain access to U.S.
data and infrastructure, unquote.
So that outlines not just like environmental or like the general anti-data center beliefs held by the American public.
Like this, this shows like actual, you know, like threats to national security by hostile state actors or criminal groups, as well as people with their own environmental or ethical reasons for opposing AI domestically.
Though Wired also reported that a fusion center in Northern Virginia created a report on Tesla takedown protests and in-person assemblies like demonstrations at an Arlington County budget meeting and a Fairfax County school board meeting where people voiced opposition to AI.
Yeah.
And this is, again, also like historically what these fusion centers have been used for, as James was talking about.
I mean, like all the way back to like...
God, I mean, like, I probably should have worked out in what order I wanted to talk about these.
But like, yeah, fusion centers have been used to target everything from like anti-Iraq war protest stuff in like the mid 2000s through like, yeah, like fusion centers were like one of the big coordinating agents for like all of the repression in 2020.
They've been used in, like, anti-Palestine protests in, like, 2024, during the campus occupations.
So, like, yeah, like, these sort of, like, intelligence reports are talking about, like, different threat factors.
But going after protesters is, like, what these vision centers, in a lot of cases, are designed to do.
So, yeah.
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