Ryan Knudson

The last question I've got time for is that you wrote that

I wanted to talk about the love chapter, which you're going to have to just buy the book if you want to hear about the love scene.

But you wrote that the idea that my kids' generation might have their own first love in the form of a machine designed to pander to their every need, nothing I've reported on in this book terrifies me more.

Why was that the most terrifying thing?

All right, Jonah, thank you so much for your time.

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In March, more than 100 residents of a small Missouri town gathered in a high school gymnasium to watch a city council vote.

Sell out!

Things got heated.

I hope you have nightmares!

The city council vote, and all the chaos that surrounded it, was over a proposal to build a data center.

No data center!

Residents swore at the council members as they were called on to vote.

Nationwide, data center construction has been largely unwelcome.

So it sounds like there's a lot of not-in-my-backyard energy out there right now.