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OpenAI shuts down Sora while Meta gets shut out in court

NOBODY TALKING: Everyone tracks model releases and funding rounds. Nobody is watching AI infrastructure hit a real-world wall—an 82-year-old Kentucky woman just proved it.

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As AI companies scale data center buildouts into rural America, local opposition and legal setbacks are emerging as a material constraint on infrastructure expansion. This signals a regulatory/social friction layer that could reshape AI capex timelines and site selection strategies.

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  1. Kentucky landowner rejected $26M offer for AI data center development

  2. 2,000-acre rezoning attempt by unnamed AI company

  3. Meta facing court losses on infrastructure/land-use issues

  4. OpenAI Sora shutdown (product impact, timing unclear from excerpt)

  5. AI infrastructure expansion meeting grassroots/legal resistance

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Publisher excerpt: When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as AI infrastructure stretches further into the real world, the real world is starting…
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