Jasmine Sun
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827 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Jasmine Sun’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Every once in a while, you'll hear a rattling.
But again, they're windowless.
There are not that many workers inside.
So they're very mechanical sounds.
They are inhuman, as a lot of folks would say.
You had stay-at-home moms.
You had retired executives.
You had farmers who didn't like the impacts on their land.
You had activists, professional activists with environmental groups in the state.
It was an interesting mix of people, but a lot of women, relatively more left-leaning, though definitely some right-leaning folks as well,
It's a good question.
It's one I had and thought a lot about before I went.
And I've talked to city officials who are confused by this question of, we had a chip fab here, we had an auto plant here, we had a fulfillment center here, and nobody cared as much.
Why are data centers so much more unpopular than, say, solar farms, which also faced local opposition in places like Michigan?
And so I think while the quality of life concerns around this thing is...
loud and annoying and ugly and consumes resources are very similar to other industrial projects.
There must be some reason that opposition is so much more severe and widespread, even beyond the communities where the data centers are literally being built.
And I think that question has a lot to do with the AI, with the AI industry, and sort of the way that people feel about these companies and these projects.
Yeah, I mean, this is also something that really surprised me.
And I think the NDAs that... I should
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