Show Not Tell
"After Americans learn whose affordability messages win at the ballot box, they’ll learn whose affordability policies actually work and (perhaps) keep them in office":
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/democrats-cost-of-living-affordability-platform/684847
"Job openings have fallen despite a roaring stock market, 22 states are in or near a recession, and despite data centers propping up the construction industry, U.S. manufacturing is in decline..."
"If tech stocks fall because of AI companies failing to deliver on their promises, the highly leveraged hedge funds that are invested in these companies could be forced into fire sales. This could create a vicious cycle, causing the financial damage to spread to pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies, and everyday investors. As capital flees the market, non-tech stocks will also plummet: bad news for anyone who thought to play it safe and invest in, for instance, real estate. If the damage were to knock down private-equity firms (which are invested in these data centers) themselves—which manage trillions and trillions of dollars in assets and constitute what is basically a global shadow-banking system—that could produce another major crash":
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765
-- which would squeeze those already struggling even MORE!
"Consider also that if AI companies deliver on their massive investments, it would likely mean producing a technology so capable and revolutionary that it wipes out countless jobs and sends an unprecedented shock wave through the global economy before humans have time to adapt. (Perhaps we will be unable to adapt at all.) If they fail, there will likely be unprecedented financial turmoil as well."
Ditto.
Ibid.
"But the supply of water in the region is quite limited, and the more that’s taken up by data centers, the less there IS for, say, supplying tap water to new housing":
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/ai-water-climate-microsoft/677602