AI Backlash Threatens Adoption, Investors Keep Betting Big

AI backlash is mounting—with protests, worker strikes, and local resistance to data centers that could slow adoption and raise electricity costs—yet investors are still pouring money into AI companies. SpaceX warns that regulatory or societal restrictions could hinder deploying AI tech, while Morgan Stanley flags job losses and higher power bills as political headwinds and Jefferies notes data-center pushback. Samsung's labor dispute over AI profits shows how worker demands may spill into markets. In short, public resistance could slow long-term adoption and tighten regulation, but for now the AI money machine keeps churning.