The Right Way to Deal With AI Data Centers
6/23/202626 min
As AI data centers become a bipartisan flashpoint, NLW argues for a better middle path: take community concerns seriously, get the numbers right, and negotiate hard for real local benefits. In the headlines: updates on AI cyber risk, quantum policy, neocloud deals, and the latest market anxiety around frontier AI.
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Today in the AI Daily Brief, the right way to deal with AI data centers. Before that in the headlines, updates on Mythos, SpaceX's Neocloud, and much, much more. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. [upbeat music] All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Robots and Pencils, Mission Cloud, and OutSystems. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And to learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. Last note, I've been sharing the new training.besuper.ai. This is the updated home of some of the programs that we've been experimenting with this year, including the Executive Catch-Up Program, as well as the inheritor to Enterprise Claw, which is the enterprise grade version Executive Agent Leadership Program. That is a six-week sprint that will have you not only building agents, but also building the organizational infrastructure, policies, et cetera, around them that you need to actually use agents. The next cohort for that launches on June twenty-ninth. Sign up now. Again, you can find all the links that are relevant at training.besuper.ai. We kick off today with an update in a story that we were covering yesterday, which is around the NSA dimension of the Mythos Fable ban. Now, the TLDR of what I was discussing in that initial coverage was that there seemed to me to be a mismatch between what was actually