Residents use AI for advice to halt local data center projects: 'I'm using the beast to beat the beast'

Residents use AI for advice to halt local data center projects: 'I'm using the beast to beat the beast'

"What stands in the way becomes the way" is one of the most-quoted axioms of Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius. It frames adversity as an advantage, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, everyday people are doing just that to beat back the AI data center boom. By now, most Americans are aware of data centers, the massive, resource-devouring facilities now dotting the landscape to power AI.  Jessica Sharp lives in Wilmingto…