Senator Josh Hawley: AI Will Control Us If We Do Not Control It

Senator Josh Hawley: AI Will Control Us If We Do Not Control It

Earlier this year in Festus, Missouri, a municipal government meeting packed hundreds of local residents into a high school gymnasium. The council in this river city of about 14,000 convened to consider the approval of a $6 billion project to build an AI data center.For hours, residents approached the microphone one by one, armed with simple questions. How would the data center affect their energy bills? How would this sprawling project impact l…