On Thursday, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban argued that growing opposition to AI data centers reflects broader public anxiety over artificial intelligence, job displacement and wealth concentration rather than the facilities themselves.
Mark Cuban Says AI Companies Have Already Lost The PR Battle
The “Shark Tank” investor argued that opposition to data centers has become a symbol of broader resentment toward AI and the wealth being created by a handful of technology companies.
“The fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers,” Cuban wrote on X, adding that the facilities have become “a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating.”
According to Cuban, major developers of large language models have already “lost the PR battle” because they have failed to prioritize the concerns of ordinary people.
