Can voters learn to stop worrying and love Big AI?
Republican lawmakers and presidential administration policies regarding AI regulation and data centers are clashing with voter concerns and internal party divisions during recent electoral contests.
Friday, October 16, 2026
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Republican lawmakers and presidential administration policies regarding AI regulation and data centers are clashing with voter concerns and internal party divisions during recent electoral contests.
With public opinion broadly against AI data centers, the Today, Explained podcast from Vox brought on Nicole Thomas, a marketing and PR exec who represents data center companies. The “for” arguments are familiar (tax dollars, not all data centers are XXL-sized hyperscaler AI projects, and that what is needed is more transparency), and they also look at some of the attempts to make data centers friendlier, like Microsoft’s biomimicry camouflage. [Media: https://megaphone.link/VMP8675260688]