How about because they used tax payer money to help fund them? Why should my money make AI executives & shareholders richer? And let them own the products of my tax?
The administration is funding the data centers are they not? Maybe I got bamboozled into believing fake news, let me check that real quick.
Ok couldn't find that tax payer money went specifically to it, so taking that back.
On the other hand, incentives, of other forms, and rates and agreements with the data centers that mean I pay more myself for my own electricity (happening in VA where I live) is an indirection form of taxation or I'll say still means my own need to work greater (to pay for the higher electricity) is whats supporting that data center. Or said in another way, their presence has led to a greater burden on me and others, and they haven't contributed locally in the way that satisfies me or others locally. If ascribe that to a leech/parasite: if a local leech or parasite is in my community, step one to removing it is seizing it. edit: Maybe seizing it can show that removing it isn't needed, as seizing gives a greater level of control over said parasitic entity.
Hope that answered your question better. If not, I can try again in another way.
If you work through the scenarios, we're going to end up enacting heavy protectionism and stimulus on US AI companies to keep the economy from imploding. We could do this with stock in AI companies (like Bernie is pushing), but if the government pays for that stock it becomes a dump target paying out to oligarchs and the AI companies become "too big to fail." If the government owns the data centers, the people profit even if AI underperforms.
First off, there's a fiscal hole that has to come from somewhere. If it doesn't come from AI oligarchs, it's going to come from the rich at large, or the working class. Real talk, if it comes from the working class, we're 100% going to have a revolution, life is getting unsustainable for a large swathe of normal Americans already. If working class folks feel they're getting bent over for oligarchs now, they'll steal and destroy to make the cost up.
Second, these companies have looted America by hiding income in Panama/Ireland/etc when they've earned it on the back of American protection, American consumers, etc. It would be generous of the US government to offer corporate wealth repatriation and a token payment as part of deprivatization.
> there's a fiscal hole that has to come from somewhere.
Why? If new technology is invented that enables us to do new things with fewer resources doesn’t that create wealth? It didn’t take it, it made a new thing.
You should do the math on how much AI would have to create in order to fill the hole. Spoiler: we'd need nearly the best case scenarios for AI driven global GDP growth predicted by the most bullish firms, we'd need to regress to pre-Reagan corporate tax rates AND the AI companies would need to suddenly grow a conscious and stop their tax avoiding ways.
edit: We used to call that Fraud.