Companies including Palantir and Meta also rushed to hire Washington lobbyists with closer ties to Democrats ahead of their anticipated victory. OpenAI hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.
Since the election, AI companies have talked about rebranding data centres as “compute campuses” and promised a suite of incentives such as school funding, power investments and environmental concessions to entice local residents.
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Corporate lobbying and professional lobbyists should be made illegal. That’s just bribery with extra steps.