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A terrifying attack on an Indianapolis city councilman\u2019s home has ignited fears that mounting opposition to the data centers that power artificial intelligence is taking an increasingly violent turn.<\/p>\n
Ron Gibson, who is serving his third term on the Indianapolis City-County Council, said someone fired 13 shots into his front door early Monday \u2013 and left a handwritten note that said \u201cNO DATA CENTERS\u201d.<\/p>\n
That was just days after Gibson attended a Metropolitan Development Commission meeting to support a data center project, one the developer said would be used at least in part for AI, in a local neighborhood \u2014 drawing boos from attendees when he stepped up to speak about the jobs it could bring, according to a CBS News report<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cJust steps from where those bullets struck is our dining room table, where my son had been playing with his Legos the day before,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cThat reality is deeply unsettling.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Opposition to data centers has escalated rapidly over the past year, according to a November report<\/a> by the Soufan Center, a security-focused research group. The hulking facilities have become lightning rods for fears that AI is poised to eliminate jobs, even as the data centers themselves threaten to jack up electricity and water bills.<\/p>\n