Sophie Cunningham sparks debate with blunt question about AI data centers

Sophie Cunningham is never afraid to speak her mind, whether she is discussing basketball or an issue far removed from the WNBA.The Indiana Fever guard sparked a new conversation Thursday when she shared her concern about farmland being purchased for the construction of artificial intelligence data centers.“So how do we save our farm land and stop all these dumb data centers,” Cunningham wrote on X.The post quickly attracted attention from people on both sides of the increasingly complicated debate. Some agreed with Cunningham’s concern about losing agricultural land, while others argued that data centers occupy only a small percentage of the available farmland in the United States and provide important economic benefits.Cunningham’s question came amid reports of another major land purchas