Private Intelligence Firms Are Selling Dossiers on AI and Data Center Critics

Private intelligence firms are selling dossiers about critics of artificial intelligence and the data centers powering them, including trying to peddle them to federal regulators, according to documents obtained by Deeper States. The offerings show that even as voter hostility toward data centers has emerged as an election-altering, bipartisan issue, corporate spy shops are hawking reports that frame widespread dissent in the language of counterterrorism to both private- and public-sector clients.

The drivers of negative sentiment toward data centers and AI include environmental concerns, fears of job loss, and increased utility prices near the sprawling compounds housing server farms and processing facilities. More broadly, people across the ideological spectrum don’t appreciate Big Tech interests dictating their local economic development. Hundreds of grassroots organizations have emerged across the country, seeking to curb data center construction and limit the negative effects of AI.

You can read the rest of this article which I published at The American Prospect here.