With less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war – and datacentres.This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the historian Jill Lepore about how this latest AI backlash could influence those all-important elections in November. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the ‘artificial state’?Listen to the Today In Focus episode on the plans for a new datacentre in London’s Brick LaneRead Jill Lepore’s Long Read hereWatch Jonathan Freedland on our new Politics Weekly YouTube channelSend your questions and feedback to politicsweeklyamerica@theguardian.com Continue reading…
