Raw LLM Responses

Psychologically, neurologically, and socially, it's basically the same problems as any sort of near-settlement industrialization (different sounds impact different people, so the specific individuals impacted differ), OTOH it's not quite as bad as wind farms being built too close to homes, given the audio AND visual/shadow flicker impact on neurological and psychological health. But one thing that's the polar opposite of putting up local wind farms (assuming they did so with proper electrical distribution infrastructure planned or already present) would be the electricity rates going up. The electricity demand impacting local cost of living is a huge problem, and one likely to lead to community/citizen action groups that force some development projects to be abandoned and force others to pay out massive amounts of money to subsidize the electricity of the local population (and/or taxes applied to such to subsidize electricity for the local population and potentially pay for additional public works). Massive, massive taxes towards AI and automated industry are likely to crop up sooner or later. Albeit ideally not punitive taxes, but actual sustainable taxes that allow solvency and profit of the industry there (so long as the business model is actually profitable), while tapping that industry to benefit the local population and both public civil infrastructure and support of other economic areas. (like actively protecting local agriculture) This is one area CA is still sometimes good about and was actually good about back in the 1960s and 70s. (a lot of big tech companies couldn't simply develop on land zoned for agriculture without taking massive tax penalties, so they took the compromise option of actively keeping orchards and farms running within their campus ... this was a key feature of IBM's original San Jose campus, which continued an operational prune orchard up into the early 2000s when it was sold off and the orchard was left to partially die off and go neglected ... then it was bought up by a developer that demolished the entire campus and orchard and paved over it, sadly ... over 15 years ago) Conventional industrialization normally brings local jobs along with it (hence why oil refinery + industrial closures in CA are so devastating to local communities), but the job creation with AI data centers is quite limited ... vastly more limited even compared to highly automated modern manufacturing, and most of the intellectual labor is done remotely, so not impacting local communities positively at all. Thus artificial means of increasing/reaping benefits via taxation is likely going to end up becoming the status quo. If/when this sort of thing succeeds, and if it creates a new status quo (ie supporting development of big tech and automation, but taxing it appropriately and using it for public works and/or for redistribution of wealth) you've pretty much got an actually sustainable AI + automation driven business model and social + civic model to work with. (long-term, such taxes could literally subsidize living and more independent/niche small business operations and passion and/or creativity driven fields ... not simply welfare state support, but subsidized human labor) Albeit this only happens if/when electricity production becomes massively cheaper. (like with large-scale adoption of nuclear power and advances in the nuclear field, like actually fielding more advanced reactor designs, fast reactors, modern breeder reactors, etc, plus continuing advances in solar and wind: in the sun belt of the US, you can obviously make a lot work on solar and especially if you establish universal rooftop solar in suburban and rural regions, plus sustainable agrivoltaeics plus similar installations to agrivolteics within greebelt land not actively being used for agriculture: ie designing solar farms to be compatible with local wildlife and even beneficial with appropriate amounts of shade ... things that are possible where wind is not so practical to mutually benefit the local wildlife populations) Granted, you need more robust and more re-useable solar pannel designs to really make this practical. (ie long service life + potential re-use and refurbishment of the semiconductor silicon photo cells, minimizing long term waste and reducing lifecycle cost even if up-front cost is higher: ie avoiding disposable consumer style procurement).