An OpEd by Executive Director Amy Sharma was recently published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Read Full Article Here – Opinion: Georgia will pay a high price for Big Tech’s data center push
In sum:
The state is confusing real innovation—strong universities, skilled workers, and a healthy business ecosystem—with the construction of massive, power-hungry data centers.
The more data centers we fund with public money and public debt, the more we put in Georgia on the “wrong side of the tracks.” Socializing the risks of the boom, building the dirty underbelly of the boom, and being so trapped in debt we can’t actually reap the rewards of the new high tech economy.
Learn all about Data Centers here: Data Centers: Transparency Makes Good Neighbors – Science for Georgia
Quote from the article.
For those of you old enough to remember the start of the internet in the late 1990s-early 2000s – there was a huge amount of excitement, a lot of (over)investment, a recession bust, and now, the internet is a viable part of our economy. But that took years.
This is a known economic cycle, specifically the Gartner Hype Cycle (which has very descriptive names for the stages). Right now, the AI Boom is nearing the ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations.’ Soon there will be a bust. Then AI will slog its way through the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ and eventually climb up the ‘Slope of Enlightenment’ before it delivers on a promise worth the hype.