Rene Haas believes fear of AI-related job loss is one cause of backlash against data centers.

“that there's a fear that AI means job loss.”

“to being an electrician right electrician is either it's not maybe viewed as a highly educated job or you're going to get a phd it's a highly skilled job that requires a lot of training and certification and you need tons of them you know to do this kind of work and that's very very critical to the to the data centers um so i think to your question i think part of the backlash is just from fear i mean there's just a fear that my jobs are going to go away uh the ai boom”