Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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The data center developers sued Saline Township, a town of like, again, a few thousand people, into saying, wait, no, this is exclusionary zoning.
You can't have no industrial use in your entire township.
And when a town of that size is getting sued by a giant AI data center developer, they just settled.
They were just like, fine, give us a few million for the fire department and for some schools.
And this fight is not worth it to us.
But that, to people, felt like a profound...
a profound violation of little d democracy, it felt like the dark money and politics story, which is, you know, you have some
very rich companies show up with a bag of money to your politician.
They don't tell anybody else what's happening.
The politicians aren't allowed to tell their citizens and involve them in the decision-making process.
And they themselves work out a deal, a deal that is fundamentally asymmetric because of the amount of money on one side that will then transform the image of your community, your lived reality into the world that these tech companies have decided for you.
And so I think that the data centers in that sense are a very visceral way
microcosm of the way that a lot of people feel that AI is showing up in their lives.
Yeah, I mean, a couple of things.
One is like, I think one big gap I noticed between Silicon Valley and the folks in these communities I was talking to is Silicon Valley does tend to think that money solves all problems, that if you just make the check bigger, everything's going to be OK.
And I think people have a sense for.
I'm being bribed.
This corporation is not offering me a free lunch or whatever.
There is going to be something that I'm losing here.
And in fact, sometimes the fact that the data center deals were bigger or the amount of political spending was bigger, actually, it just makes people more suspicious.
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