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  "path": "/2026/05/19/ais-giant-rural-job-machine-mostly-appears-to-manufacture-hype.html",
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  "textContent": "The AI boom has discovered rural America, where struggling towns are being promised salvation in the form of enormous data centers, industrial temples to machine learning that reportedly create far fewer permanent jobs and more heat than the factories and mills they replace. — Read the rest \n\nThe post AI's giant rural job machine mostly appears to manufacture hype appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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