The voices against data centers are the same Luddites who’ve spread environmental apocalypticism to stop modernization projects like pipelines and power plants and fracking.
America’s artificial intelligence boom is running into roadblocks. Bloomberg reports that half of all data-center construction plans have been canceled or delayed at the beginning of 2026. This slowing growth is due in part to local building moratoriums, tax code phaseouts, and trouble connecting to…
America's growing need for data centers is essential to powering the internet, artificial intelligence, national security, and the nation's digital economy.
As data centers become increasingly thrust into the political conversation during the 2026 election cycle, animosity towards the artificial intelligence data hubs has grown faster among Democrats than Republicans, while support has plummeted among all Americans.
Democrats are beginning to discover a political opportunity in the public backlash against data centers. A new Politico poll finds that Americans’ views on data centers have grown increasingly negative and politically polarized, with Democrats more likely than Republicans to oppose building data cen…
As companies race to build the infrastructure behind AI and the internet, communities are weighing new investment against questions about electricity, water and long-term costs.
Rapid data center construction across the US fueled by AI comes with serious threats to the environment, public health and energy supply. Local opposition has blocked or delayed dozens of projects.
Data centers have become a significant source of controversy nationwide, drawing the attention of leaders in Washington, where the House of Representatives advanced a bill to protect ratepayers from energy cost spikes, as well as state capitals, as they respond to growing public concerns.
For a nation so utterly divided in its politics, there’s one issue bringing Americans together: A mistrust of data centers. Data centers are facilities filled with computers and networking equipment that keep the internet, cloud services, apps and AI running.…
For decades, Americans have been told that "the cloud" is something invisible — a magical place where photographs, emails, financial records and now artificial intelligence simply exist.
New national polling from Emerson Colleges surveying likely voters in the 2026 election shows that Americans have soured significantly on data centers just over the past eight months.
President Trump thinks that Americans against data centers are being duped by foreign propaganda and that in reality, there are a lot of people who want to live near them. “Other nations are trying to get us to slow down” regarding data center construction, Trump said at the Environmental Protection…
As data center development continues to expand across Texas, communities, local officials and state leaders are increasingly raising questions about the industry's impact on power grids, water supplies and land use.
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