Zitron warns AI data-centre build-out is ‘reckless’ and community-harming

What was said

"I think the way they're building the data centers is reckless and damaging to communities. The fact that you have communities like in Vineland, New Jersey where the residents are like, I don't want this, but the planning boards vote for it because they're all, I assume, having chummy lunches with the people doing it. I think the use of gas turbines is fucking disgraceful."

Zitron argues that the rapid expansion of AI-focused data centres is being pushed through despite local opposition, and he singles out ‘behind-the-meter’ gas turbines as a harmful power solution. He suggests planning processes are being unduly influenced, though he offers this as an assumption rather than documented proof.