> most people were complaining about lack of infrastructure spending before AI

Presumably they'd like the infrastructure spending to go to infrastructure that improves their lives in some way. I somehow doubt that, when complaining, the vast majority of said people had in mind "let's spend hundreds of billions of dollars on datacenters while everything else crumbles".

I think the point is “out of state”.

But also, the price of grid upgrades are more and more often being passed directly to customers and you don’t really get a choice of whether or not you’re a customer.

you should read the article before commenting

I suspect people would want to spend money on infrastructure that benefits them, and not a multi trillion dollar company.

Wait, you also agree that state and federal elected officials waste absurd amounts of money? Regularly? With no consequence?!

Was your comment trying to normalize this, or blame citizens?

Yeah, turns out people want things that benefit them and not things that exclusively benefit the billionaires who control AI.

I complain about not enough direct flights from my local airport, if they put in a bunch of direct flights for billionaires only I would complain even harder.