the astroturfed objections to datacenters involving fake water usage and fake power bill increases planted in major publications make the ai infra buildout a bipartisan punching bag in the midterms. this is a deliberate attempt by foreign adversaries to subvert american ai.

as always, the first question must be 'cui bono ?' who benefits? nobody stands to benefit more from a stalled american ai buildout than the chinese, who are a couple of generations behind in their domestic compute capacity, and who know very well the stakes of staying that way.