Ideas / Search Engine: AI in the Wild
A Road Trip Through the Data Center Debate
Search Engine with reporter Jasmine Sun
Reporter Jasmine Sun visits communities living beside data centers and returns AI to buildings, electricity, local politics, and contested land.
Sun travels through two swing states to meet people at the center of the data center debate. The reporting replaces the cloud metaphor with substations, construction, local campaigns, and neighbors who did not consent to become infrastructure characters.
It is a necessary complement to abstract arguments about intelligence. Even a world model needs a zoning hearing.