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Data Centres Canceled: $286bn blocked and delayed by local opposition | Paris Marx

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Show Notes

“People do have the power to shut data centers down and to disrupt the narrative of inevitability the tech industry relies on.”

Author of Hyperscalers and host of Tech Won’t Save Us Paris Marx join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how the public is turning on the AI industry and has so fare blocked or delayed $286bn of data center development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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