{"slug": "ai-data-centers-and-the-concentration-of-wealth", "title": "AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth", "summary": "Opposition to AI data centers has become a bipartisan issue in US politics, but the authors argue that focusing on data centers obscures the larger impacts of AI, including the concentration of power and political influence of AI companies.", "body_md": "*This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian.*\n\nOpposition to AI data centers has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one that—surprisingly—doesn’t [fall](https://grist.org/politics/data-center-ai-bipartisan-backlash/) [along](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/liberals-conservatives-data-centers.html) party lines. We applaud people coming together for constructive debate on any issue, and agree that communities need to evaluate whether any economic benefits these data centers bring is worth their costs. Still, we worry that a focus on data centers obscures the larger impacts of AI on people’s lives: the concentration of power of AI companies, and their widespread political and financial influence...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-data-centers-and-the-concentration-of-wealth", "canonical_source": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-data-centers-and-the-concentration-of-wealth.html", "published_at": "2026-07-13 11:01:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 11:11:49.905080+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Nathan E. Sanders", "The Guardian"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-data-centers-and-the-concentration-of-wealth", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-data-centers-and-the-concentration-of-wealth.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-data-centers-and-the-concentration-of-wealth.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-data-centers-and-the-concentration-of-wealth.jsonld"}}