The political economy of the buildout

Oct 1, 2026 AI

From the AI digest for Oct 1, 2026

Sources ainvest Verge — Utah

• Fed Governor Lisa Cook (ainvest, low-tier single outlet — verify against the speech): the AI boom is an inflation problem the Fed cannot fix — AI as a general-purpose technology should eventually lower prices, but the current buildout is inflationary. New watch thread: ai-economics.
• The Verge's Kevin O'Leary Utah investigation (~10:00 AM ET): Stratos — a 40,000-acre AI campus pitched at nine gigawatts, "more than double the average power usage of the entire state of Utah." The data-center-backlash thread's candidate-politics watch now has a famous plaintiff and a documented debacle to campaign on.
• "We used AI to find out how much Americans hate AI" (MSN syndication — verify origin outlet): opposition to AI/data centers/Flock cameras as a bipartisan unifier — the polling strand's salience question, now in series form.

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