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That can't be true. People obviously believe DCs have big local impact and it really does affect their power bills at least.

The global impact of AI doesn't change when you force DCs to build in another area.

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It does if it slows the rate of data center builds and makes it progressively more difficult to site future data centers.

If you make it hard to build them in the US they will get built in other countries. Do you think Chinese residents get any say over where DCs go?

Exactly. It's just like when we used to pay workers a living wage. Well where did all of those jobs go amiright?! Stupid peasants can be so annoying... we're just trying to bring everyone into the grand age of abundance!

Totally not a new robber baron era at all. That's just fake news guys.

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Big tech is worried that if they build a $100 billion datacenter in another country the country could simply take it from them

Kansas is a rural state that survives because of government agricultural subsidies as well as costly boondoggles such as ethanol that everyone else has to pay for. Complaining about government subsidies also going to other people is a bit rich.

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