Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash

Americans overwhelmingly oppose data centers, Flock surveillance cameras, and Meta’s AI-infused Ray-Ban glasses, reflecting a broader hostility toward generative AI that recent polls confirm. In response to new political proposals and a Heatmap survey showing 75% public opposition to local data-center construction, industry leaders dismissed the backlash as a Chinese-funded psy-op, “psychosis,” or an unjustified shill campaign, while making no substantive changes to messaging or business practices.