this is desperately needed in SF where artists have been arguably even more priced out - but possibly via philanthropic capital associated with the AI ecosystem? it’s also strange that there is so much philanthropic goodwill within frontier labs but little of it seems to be invested back into the city that’s supporting the AI boom, but has been extremely hallowed out culturewise due to rising costs of living

100% and @jasminewsun had a great point about this-- the value of building a new datacenter is so amorphous and intangible compared to building something "real"/"physical" like an automotive factory in a town to the avg american all the $ is flowing in the wrong direction and its nonsensical that they are stuck in the same material conditions, when immaterial conditions (ie. a new model release) are improving-- and all of this is downstream from unease around healthcare, housing, and education i think meta's Future Is for Everyone Fund is a good start but we need firmer commitments to construction workers, social workers, teachers, nurses etc. you can imagine eventually every datacenter buildout deal having a public Community Benefits Agreement where they specify things like local hire percentages/wage floors, as opposed to the prevailing method today which is negotiating the datacenter deal under an NDA and then the whole town finds out when its too late