I think it’s a lot simpler which is that turns our that pro-AI conservative NIMBY’s don’t want AI data centers in their backyard anymore than they want renewable energy or affordable housing. It’s just another nuisance they don’t want to live near if nothing else.

Will it? The cloud models have to fight with the cost of third parties hosting Deepseek and other open weight models.

You can block traffic from clients that don’t have an HTTPS cert installed which lets you look at their traffic and make installing that cert part of the ohone’s carrier activation process. This is still silly though