Anthropic’s SpaceX compute deal comes as AI data center backlash grows, fueled by both real grievances and conspiracy theories
Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman.

Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition: U.S.
and China pursue AI guardrails to handle race to build powerful AI systems…How a congressional primary became a proxy battle over AI…The reggae band in a nightmare battle against AI slop remixes. I’ve spent a good deal of my time at Fortune focused on the mega AI data center boom, the new era of sprawling, gigawatt-scale AI campuses humming with racks of chips powering frontier models.
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