AI data centres are becoming wedge issue of our era

Konrad Yakabuski/The Globe and Mail: Indeed, data centres are emerging as the defining wedge issue of our times. As Western governments scramble to ensure AI pre-eminence over China, they are running up against opposition to potential job losses, concerns about AI’s drain on scarce resources, warnings about its impacts on economic inequality and mental health, and, ultimately, increasingly plausible fears that autonomous AI could outsmart its human creators…