A recent election here in a rural area west of me in Texas involved a small area that voted to incorporate to become a small town so they could regulate the huge bitcoin mining company that is in the neighborhood. The noise, the gasses released from equipment, they're making people sick. Whether bitcoin or AI processing plants, they make noise, heat, and use a huge amount of energy.

Interestingly, but unrelated, an episode of Murder, She Wrote is on this morning, Episode 8.5, from 1991, in which the 286 or 386 computer installed in her apartment, with a phone connection for the modem, is bugged with malware by the computer installation guy. Not AI, but computer stuff that could go wrong. (It was a good reminder of why you should turn off the computer regularly, if not every day.) :)