In a Substack essay, Gary Marcus presents polling data showing rapidly growing, bipartisan opposition to local AI data centers. He argues this reflects a broader public backlash against artificial intelligence and reiterates his earlier prediction that anti-AI sentiment could become a major factor in the 2028 US presidential election. Marcus attributes the shift to what he characterizes as greed, overhype, and recklessness within the AI industry rather than to inherent flaws in the technology itself.
