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Shira Ovide Kyle Schmidt ticked through what makes him irate about the massive Google data center slated for construction about a mile away from his home near Sand Springs, Oklahoma.

Data centers have become a lightning rod for people’s frustrations over corporate power, public trust and the costs of the AI boom.

Waves of layoffs and growing pressure to automate jobs are creating existential panic in the tech industry. Economists say other white-collar workers are next.

By Kyle Schmidt ticked through what makes him irate about the massive Google data center slated for construction about a mile away from his home near Sand Springs, Oklahoma.

SAN FRANCISCO - Throughout a nearly two-decade career, Susan Smith considered herself a winner in the American economic lottery.

By and SAN FRANCISCO — Throughout a nearly two-decade career, Susan Smith considered herself a winner in the American economic lottery.

Over the past decade, the giants of Silicon Valley became reliable engines of the American economy and the nation's retirement accounts.

The fates of the U.S. economy and millions of retirement accounts are entangled with a giant bet on artificial intelligence by leading tech firms.

Google put on hold an AI feature in Google Earth just hours after it was introduced. People used it to create AI-manipulated aerial views of horrific scenes.

The AI bet by the country’s leading firms is torching their cash.