A recent study about young people and AI found they use it a lot but the more they do the more unhappy they are about it. This might help explain the push back in Utah and other places when it comes to data centers.

A Surprising Pushback from Young Voices

You may have seen video of speakers at high school graduations getting booed when they brought up how the world has changed with AI. This seems surprising when it is these young people who adapt to new technology the quickest.

What they found in the study is that Gen Z uses AI regularly, they are also less excited about it and there is a growing anger and resentment about it. They don't like that jobs are becoming obsolete and it worries them.

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They also feel AI is not as good as they expected and they feel they are being pushed by those in authority to adopt it. They increasingly report wanting more human interaction and less technology invading their personal space.

Older people are slower to adapt and understand technology but I think as they interact with AI, they are coming to the same conclusions. I think you can expect a growing dislike for this technology the more it is used.

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In Utah and other parts of the nation there has been a very public push back of proposed data centers. This is an indication of this growing resentment that is seen more and more in these early adapters.

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