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Private intelligence firms are selling dossiers about critics of artificial intelligence and the data centers powering them, including trying to peddle them to federal regulators, according to documents obtained by the Prospect<\/em>. The offerings show that even as voter hostility toward data centers has emerged as an election-altering, bipartisan issue, corporate spy shops are hawking reports that frame widespread dissent in the language of counterterrorism to both private- and public-sector clients.<\/p>\n

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The drivers of negative sentiment toward data centers and AI include environmental concerns, fears of job loss, and increased utility prices near the sprawling compounds housing server farms and processing facilities. More broadly, people across the ideological spectrum don\u2019t appreciate Big Tech interests dictating their local economic development. Hundreds of grassroots organizations have emerged across the country, seeking to curb data center construction and limit the negative effects of AI.<\/p>\n

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But the threat products and reports obtained by the Prospect<\/em> are less concerned with altering the root cause of this dissent, and more focused on the threat posed by an enraged American populace to corporations\u2019 bottom line.<\/p>\n

In a product offering from the corporate intelligence company RANE Network sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the corporate firm offered the federal agency\u2014which regulates the interstate transmission and sale of electricity, gas, and oil\u2014a tailored report on the threat posed by anti-tech sentiment.<\/p>\n

\u201cRANE can provide an assessment covering rising anti-technology sector sentiment among both the public and governments around the world, identifying specific implications for your organization,\u201d the offering reads. Topics that RANE promises to cover include:<\/p>\n