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Derek Thompson

What Derek Thompson thinks about data centers

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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein and a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025.

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  1. Our readingThe current AI data-center buildout is the biggest and fastest-growing infrastructure project in living memory.

    infrastructure

    Their wordsThis is the biggest and fastest-growing infrastructure project of our lifetimes.

    ↗The Great American AI Rebellionderekthompson.org 1st of 2 in this piece

  3. Our readingOpposition to new AI data centers has become the fastest-growing political movement in America, putting it on a collision course with the industry that depends on building them.

    America

    Their wordsThe fastest-growing political movement in America is dead-set on stopping the construction of data centers, which are critical to the growth of the fastest-growing industry in America.

    ↗The Great American AI Rebellionderekthompson.org 2nd of 2 in this piece