California Sun Podcast

Emily Hoeven on the inversion of AI’s discontent

13 August 2026

Emily Hoeven expected the towns hosting America’s new data centers to be the angriest. She found the opposite. In a recent column for the San Francisco Chronicle — titled “‘We were a dying little town’: How Silicon Valley data centers are reshaping rural America” — she maps a strange disconnect: the dread over data centers…

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