{"id":265420,"date":"2026-06-05T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/new-unh-study-two-thirds-of-granite-staters-say-ai-will-make-country-worse\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:05:09","slug":"new-unh-study-two-thirds-of-granite-staters-say-ai-will-make-country-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/new-unh-study-two-thirds-of-granite-staters-say-ai-will-make-country-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"New UNH study: two-thirds of Granite Staters say AI will make country worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/new-unh-study-two-thirds-of-granite-staters-say-ai-will-make-country-worse\/71510743\">New UNH study: two-thirds of Granite Staters say AI will make country worse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/new-unh-study-two-thirds-of-granite-staters-say-ai-will-make-country-worse\/71510743\">https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/new-unh-study-two-thirds-of-granite-staters-say-ai-will-make-country-worse\/71510743<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 23:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wmur.com\">www.wmur.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA new study by the University of New Hampshire finds that nearly two-thirds of Granite Staters think artificial intelligence will have a negative effect on the country in the next decade. According to the study, those in the younger demographic (18 to 34 years old) were particularly pessimistic about AI&#8217;s impact. Those aged 65 and older polled more positive.The study also asked Granite Staters if an AI data center should be built here. The majority oppose it, with 45 percent of respondents saying they oppose any continued plans for data centers in the state.These numbers come on the heels of a proposed data center in Nottingham being taken off the table after an outpouring of public opposition. News 9 spoke to Carl Staley, the Planning Board chair of Peterborough. He said AI data centers have come up in the Planning Board&#8217;s conversations.However, Staley suggested the state could not house one, much less in his hometown. &#8220;The use of water, the use of land, the noise, all those things would be kind of non-starters,&#8221; Staley said of a data center in Portsmouth.  Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">DURHAM, N.H. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A new study by the University of New Hampshire finds that nearly two-thirds of Granite Staters think artificial intelligence will have a negative effect on the country in the next decade. <\/p>\n<p>According to the study, those in the younger demographic (18 to 34 years old) were particularly pessimistic about AI&#8217;s impact. Those aged 65 and older polled more positive.<\/p>\n<p>The study also asked Granite Staters if an AI data center should be built here. The majority oppose it, with 45 percent of respondents saying they oppose any continued plans for data centers in the state.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers come on the heels of a proposed data center in Nottingham being taken off the table after an outpouring of public opposition. <\/p>\n<p>News 9 spoke to Carl Staley, the Planning Board chair of Peterborough. He said AI data centers have come up in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/new-unh-study-two-thirds-of-granite-staters-say-ai-will-make-country-worse\/71510743\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New UNH study: two-thirds of Granite Staters say AI will make country worse https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/new-unh-study-two-thirds-of-granite-staters-say-ai-will-make-country-worse\/71510743 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/htv-prod\/images\/4efa3293-a8eb-4f5d-91ce-39bdd945588f.png?crop=1.00xw:0.961xh;0,0&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265422,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265420\/revisions\/265422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}