Data center builders must share profits, jobs, and lower power costs with communities to overcome NIMBYism
Local pushback (NIMBYism) threatens data center projects; industry must better communicate job creation, lower energy costs, and profit-sharing with communities rather than letting social media drive negative narratives — regulation risk if they fail.
Energy consumption a key constraint for AI compute scaling
The 16x compute demand growth from AI faces fundamental cost and energy consumption constraints, requiring major innovation in chip architecture, lithography, and memory to improve performance per watt.