Ezra Klein

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767 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Hard Fork · The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

That's a long on a highway. voice-verified

You mentioned hearing them. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

What do they sound like? voice-verified

So you spent a lot of time with people organizing against data centers. voice-verified

Who were they? voice-verified

So one question I've heard people ask is how much is this different than other kinds of industrial installations? voice-verified

I mean, there are a lot of things that are built all over the country that you wouldn't necessarily want to be right next to. voice-verified

Are data centers unusual in this or are they, you know, from fracking to industrial agriculture, just like the latest version of it? voice-verified

When I read your reporting on this, when I've talked to people involved in this, it always feels to me there are sort of three layers of concerns that are converging voice-verified

what we call the data center backlash. voice-verified

There's process. voice-verified

Then there's direct impacts, you know, the environment, water, electricity. voice-verified

And then there's AI itself. voice-verified

And maybe let's go through them sort of one by one. voice-verified

One thing that voice-verified

I have been hearing a lot of and I've seen in your reporting as well is the anger over how these processes are going and in particular the use of NDAs. voice-verified

that common, right? voice-verified

I've voice-verified

lot of what does it take to build a housing development and you don't tend to hear a lot of the city councilmen got put under an NDA. voice-verified

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