I don't get all this environmental harm scare mongering. It's not actually real right? I found this graph https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/us-electricity-deman... and there's not much movement in the total if you look at the whole thing.
this part in particular:
Like right-to-work laws that frame themselves as protecting individual freedom, critics warn that right-to-compute statutes could, in practice, primarily benefit large corporations by limiting the ability of states and local governments to regulate AI projects.
Alec which is the group that formed after business/ultra wealthy decided it was cheaper to just buy government than work for votes for unpopular things after the Powell Memorandum.
It was super effective! https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/SaezZucman14slides.pdf