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This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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Economic Effects, Energy, and Local Backlash

How AI spending pulls capital from manufacturing, drives energy demand and inflation, creates grid tensions, and sparks NIMBY pushback and offshore relocation of data centers.

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