I took on big tech. We need to get it right this time

Something is shifting. In July, New York became the first state in the country to impose a moratorium on hyperscale data centers—the power-devouring facilities that fuel artificial intelligence—so that the state could actually study what they do to communities before letting them consume more of the grid. In March, juries in New Mexico and California found Meta liable for knowingly designing products that addict and exploit children, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in damages with…