🚨WSJ: The Panic Industry’s New Target – AI and Data Centers Barton Swaim nails it: A generation drilled with climate doom is now having the same script flipped on AI and data centers. Eric Schmidt tells Arizona grads not to fear the future - machines, jobs, climate - but the fear he decries was bankrolled by outfits like his own Schmidt Family Foundation’s 11th Hour Project. Key points: •Hypocrisy on steroids: For 20 years, progressive billionaires (Schmidt, Gates, etc.) poured hundreds of millions into climate-panic groups, Al Gore screenings, and anti-fossil fuel activism. Now those same activists, armed with the same talking points and funding networks, are blocking data centers needed for AI. •Busybody Economy: Nonprofits built to chase “future calamities” never declare victory. They pivot to new targets. Climate apocalypse → AI will destroy jobs/livelihoods data centers = environmental ruin. •Local fallout: Too many protesters at county meetings aren’t organic thinkers -they’re echoing conflict group talking points. Same playbook as fracking bans and pipeline blocks. •Reality check: AI needs massive power. Opposing reliable energy data centers while demanding AI benefits is incoherent. The panic machine profits from fear, not solutions. Tech titans helped create this fear culture, then act surprised when it bites their own projects. Time to reject manufactured panics and embrace abundance: energy, innovation, growth. The “panic industry” thrives on perpetual crisis. Don’t buy the sequel. #AI #Datacenters #panicindustry #NGOs

#Panicindustry business model: 1.) Find or invent a concern in society 2.) Amplify into fear 3.) Sell your solution (courses, book, apps, talks...) at a reasonable price. Also flabbergasted at how many of these people have a "recovery story" of their own to help push their wares