Source: NYT > Business
Kassi Solberg's opposition to a massive data center development near her Iowa home exemplifies a growing tension between AI infrastructure expansion and organized local resistance. Projects at the scale of 3,800 football fields—required to train foundation models—are now meeting sustained community opposition that developers and policymakers must reckon with. The question of where AI's physical infrastructure gets built, and who absorbs environmental and community costs, is no longer settled by default.