As hyperscalers race toward artificial general intelligence, they are leaving a trail of anger and protest in their wake. State by state, many organizations, city and county councils, and local elected officials are drawing on a range of tools to launch a powerful opposition against the data centers that hyperscalers are building to support the AI race.
Currently, media coverage and local politics have fueled a discourse that frames AI infrastructure through a reductionist We the People vs. Big Tech binary. We believe that more balanced knowledge dissemination on the economics, politics and social impact of data centers will deescalate this discourse. AI infrastructure is going to be built, whether we like it or not. By coordinating signals between hyperscalers and concerned citizens, we can guide data centers to where they will be most symbiotic with local interests.
LocalQ Labs is an independent research analysis company. Our analysts model the risk factors that transform mild opposition into costly project delays. We offer what we call community intelligence: insights, visualizations, and datasets tracking social and political trends shaping the infrastructural build-out supporting the technological leap of a generation.