Issue brief
AI, Data Centers, and Competition
How should AI and data-center growth face public accountability?
Our position
Require transparent data-center cost allocation, privacy minimization, portable data where justified, and appealable public decisions. Concern about AI is not a referendum for a moratorium.
Why it matters
Innovation without accountable power becomes gatekeeping; panic without mechanisms becomes theater.
Evidence
P17–P18 measure job expectations and data-center concern. Expectations are not measured losses; local rate impacts need engineering analysis.
Strongest objection
Moratoriums and blank deregulation both skip the hard questions of cost, reliability, and rights.
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