{"id":252954,"date":"2026-04-05T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252954\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:32:11","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-pushback-against-ai-data-centers-shouldnt-be-considered-nimbyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252954\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Pushback against AI data centers shouldn\u2019t be considered NIMBYism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: In a time in which a majority of Americans think AI is more likely to harm than help them in day-to-day life, as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2026-03-31\/more-than-half-of-u-s-says-ai-is-likely-to-harm-them\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a> in the Los Angeles Times, NIMBYism should not be conflated with opposition to data centers (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2026-04-02\/youre-liar-why-worlds-biggest-building-boom-has-run-into-wall-in-california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c\u2018You\u2019re a liar.\u2019 Why the world\u2019s biggest building boom has run into a wall in California,\u201d<\/a> April 2).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNIMBY\u201d is a term used derisively for the latent hypocrisy. Here, opposition to data centers is more akin to \u201cnot in anyone\u2019s backyard.\u201d Confusing the two does a disservice to the people who will suffer from data centers and AI, no matter where they live.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Smallberg, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: In a time in which a majority of Americans think AI is more likely to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112256,11432,20675,112259,7,38177,2072,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,46948,112258,9300,112257,1290,8074],"class_list":["post-252954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ai-data-center","tag-americans","tag-april","tag-big-building-boom","tag-california","tag-datum-center","tag-editor","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-majority","tag-nimbyism","tag-opposition","tag-pushback","tag-wall","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}