Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta ‘spent’ millions of dollars in two months to tell Americans: Datacentres are not bad, they bring …

It seems Meta knows that datacentres, which are the backbone of artificial intelligence (AI) industry, may become a hot political issue. This has made the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company spend $6.4 million to run a series of ads promoting the benefits of data centres that ran across several states in the US in the months of November and December. According to a story in the New York Times, “The advertisement began with a panning shot of Altoona, Iowa, a town of 20,000 near Des Moines. The camera moved from a diner to a farm to a high school football field. To the pluck of guitar strings, a voice-over promoted a boon for the local economy. “We’re bringing jobs here,” the ad said. “For us, and for our next generation.”