Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya sees AI sitting on “a powder keg.” And no, he’s not referring to a bubble, but rather the growing backlash around data centers.
Palihapitiya, co-host of the “All-In Podcast,” tore into “the collective leadership of frontier AI,” who he said have failed to convince the American people of the benefits of their industry more broadly and the advantages of data centers, in particular.
“Data centers have unfortunately become THE symbolic representation of the asymmetric upside for a very narrow tech elite and a class that are untrustworthy,” Palihapitiya wrote in a Thursday post on X.
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