Pity the poor AI data centers facing 'discrimination' | Arwa Mahdawi

The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defenseBack in 2016, Marco Gutiérrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the US. "My culture is a very dominant culture," he said on MSNBC. "It is imposing and it's causing problems. If you don't do something about it, you're going to have taco trucks on every corner."A decade later, I regret to inform you there is not a taco truck on every corner. But I am here to issue my own ominous warning about the takeover of America: not by immigrant culture but by AI culture. To echo Gutiérrez: it is imposing and it's causing problems. And if we don't do something about it, we're going to have datacenters on every corner.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...