On the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Sean O'Kane, Rebeccan Bellan and I discussed Amazon's announcement, which came in the middle of a longer blog post making the case that data centers are actually good for communities. Rebecca was a bit skeptical that the recent spate of data center moratoriums will have a lasting effect, especially since the moratoriums only last for a year or two and 'these data centers aren't coming online for the next two, three, four, five years,' though I countered that data center backers definitely seem worried. 'We've seen, through a lot of the controversy and backlash to AI and data centers, that the industry just does a really poor job explaining itself, and that they are obviously and constantly frustrated with the fact that most people can't envision a world in which this stuff is useful for them,' he said. Sean O'Kane: It's an interesting thing that it was sort of buried in the blog post and part of a larger story that Amazon's...
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