There are certainly more that "embrace" it. Maybe not as much as tech executives, but there's a huge amount of students using it for both homework and personal tasks.
Conversely, the second crowd that believe AI is an ontological evil, are a much more vocal (and insular) minority.
All in all though, I've found much more people just generally apathetic than anything. People are generally not positive about slop content, but aren't about to boo tech executives.
The download count of the ChatGPT app per GP, and the insanely pervasive use inside education, somewhat back this up. It's a useful tool, thus people will use it.
Wasn't that generally the case that people seeing through something as bad, regardless of whether it indeed was evil or something of lesser degree of badness, were usually the minority? Think we've got ample evidence in each century.
but meanwhile, new data centers are being frantically built to satisfy the demand.
More like, frantically being announced and hyped up. How much new capacity has really come online recently? Show me the data, let's not bullshit here.