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Most voters oppose an AI data center near home, CNBC survey finds
What CNBC's October survey of 1,000 voters found about nearby AI data centers and pausing advanced AI, how the questions were worded, and what the numbers cannot show.
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- Why this image
- I chose a row of ordinary lit houses facing a huge windowless building over the hill because the survey's sharpest finding is about distance: how voters feel when a data center is proposed near home. The floating blank bubbles, mostly red with a few green, gesture at a split of opinion without inventing any numbers, people or real places.
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Editorial illustration in a flat, muted risograph print style: a quiet suburban street of small generic houses with warm lit windows at dusk, and beyond a low hill a huge windowless gray industrial building with rows of cooling fans on its roof and thin power lines leading to it. In the foreground, small round empty speech-bubble shapes float above the rooftops, most tinted a soft red and a few tinted a soft green, with no marks inside them. Deep teal, warm amber, muted red and charcoal palette on an off-white background. No people, no faces, no hands, no flags, no party symbols, no logos, no signs, no text, letters or numbers anywhere, no recognizable real places. Wide 16:9 composition.
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