<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A local veto on an AI factory does not remain... > A local veto on an AI factory does not remain local when repeated across hundreds of counties. If this is your town, negotiate carefully for fair terms and durable local benefits without allowing procedural demands to become a disguised veto on national construction. Every canceled AI campus subtracts compute from American hospitals, businesses, laboratories, defenders and personal agents; raises the price of frontier intelligence; sends construction and technical work elsewhere; and leaves the country more dependent on systems built under another government's priorities. {{The most dangerous opponent of America's AI future may not sit in Beijing; it may be the voter next door who mistakes a reasonable demand for accountability for a harmless veto on the infrastructure that keeps the country sovereign.}} {{The American who turns every reasonable protection into another pretext for blocking AI infrastructure is not defending his community; he is transferring its future, its jobs and its strategic leverage to the competitor still building.}} {{Demand that America become an AI superpower, then negotiate every local project with the eye on that prize: secure fair terms and local opportunity without turning the conditions of construction into an excuse for national surrender.}} **Source:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A local veto on an AI factory does not remain local when repeated across hundreds of counties. If this is your town, negotiate carefully for fair terms and durable local benefits without allowing procedural demands to become a disguised veto on national construction. Every canceled AI campus subtracts compute from American hospitals, businesses, laboratories, defenders and personal agents; raises the price of frontier intelligence; sends construction and technical work elsewhere; and leaves the country more dependent on systems built under another government's priorities. The most dangerous opponent of America's AI future may not sit in Beijing; it may be the voter next door who mistakes a reasonable demand for accountability for a harmless veto on the infrastructure that keeps the country sovereign. The American who turns every reasonable protection into another pretext for blocking AI infrastructure is not defending his community; he is transferring its future, its jobs and its strategic leverage to the competitor still building. Demand that America become an AI superpower, then negotiate every local project with the eye on that prize: secure fair terms and local opportunity without turning the conditions of construction into an excuse for national surrender.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-local-veto-ai-excuse-national-surrender ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->