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OpenAI shuts down Sora, Meta faces court loss, AI infrastructure resistance grows
As tensions grow over AI infrastructure expansion, local communities are increasingly pushing back. The case of an 82-year-old Kentucky woman offered $26 million to allow a data center on her land, who declined, illustrates how the real world is beginning to resist tech companies' AI ambitions.
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as AI infrastructure stretches further into the real world, the real world is starting to push back.  That tension is everywhere […]