Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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non-disclosure agreements.
This has really inflamed the amount of local opposition that you see.
And so basically what would happen oftentimes is there would be some sense starting in city council that maybe a big development project was going to show up.
But because of the NDAs, the council members would not be able to disclose that necessarily it was a data center, necessarily who the customers were going to be, a company like OpenAI or a company like Anthropic or whoever, or even the size of the project, like how much electricity is this actually going to consume?
But whispers would start to get around.
I was talking to a VP of a construction union, and he was saying, you know, there's an old Irish saying that the only way to keep a secret between three people is to kill two of them, which I thought was hilarious.
And so he's saying when these developers show up, they talk to the general contractor.
The general contractor talks to all their subcontractors.
The subcontractors talk to all their workers.
Yes, maybe everyone is signing NDAs at every part of that process, but whispers get around.
And as soon as whispers get around, you start to get social media posts.
You start to get rumors.
And the city council, because they are beholden to these NDAs, they lose the ability to get ahead of the social media narrative.
That was something I repeatedly heard from these local government officials was we could not get ahead of social media because we had signed an NDA and rumors started getting
I mean, I think they didn't think about it.
They didn't realize there would be a backlash.
They just thought it would be easier in case they changed their mind.
These companies sign lots of NDAs with their own workers, with anyone who works with them.
I don't think there's a good reason.
Microsoft has actually decided to stop using NDAs because of the level of backlash.
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