David Wallace-Wells
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599 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Aug
David Wallace-Wells’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The New York Times.
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I'm David Wallace-Wells.
I'm a writer for New York Times Opinion and a columnist for the Times Magazine.
This is an insanely polarized country, which means it isn't very often you see a political supermajority on any issue, let alone one that emerges almost out of nowhere to announce itself as a major new front in our politics.
But that's exactly what has happened just over the last year with AI data centers.
Around 7 in 10 Americans now oppose the construction of local data centers to power AI.
Last fall, people were almost exactly evenly split when asked if they'd support a new data center nearby.
Now, there's a 50-point gap.
That is an absolutely crazy swing, much bigger than the reversals you tend to see when a new president comes into office, or even when someone declares war.
So what's actually going on here?
Is there suddenly a new populist politics sweeping the country?
Can it be channeled into something productive?
And does the political economy around big tech and AI even allow for something like the democratic control that people protesting data centers seem to want?
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