Sarah Connor and the AI Data Center Meme
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Sarah Connor and the AI Data Center Meme

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A decades-old horror-thriller punchline is finding new life online as communities push back against real-world AI infrastructure.

In the 1984 movie, Sarah Connor gets locked in a psychiatric ward for insisting machines will take over. Forty years later, people are fighting real proposals to build massive AI data centers in their towns.

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