What the Twin Revolts Against Flock and Data Centers Tell Us About the Power and Risks of Populism

What the simultaneous revolts against Flock and data centers can tell us about the power and risks of populism

"The politics of data centers have shifted," write Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, David Siegel, and Stephen Henriques.

New guidance from the EPA takes away one of the most reliable tools for tracking pollution from power plants — and encourages data centers to build their own.

The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.

The U.S. data center boom is driving such a surge in gas power developments that we are now outpacing China, with nearly three times the amount of gas-fired capacity in the works. In the first half of 2026 alone, the number of gas-fired capacity under development for data centers in the U.S. nearly doubled, according t

Austin is considering new regulations for massive AI data centers amid growing concerns over their significant water and energy demands.

Beijing's strategy sees much of the digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence development across China's eastern seaboard established in the less-populated, rural west.

The United States is building twice as much natural gas as China, giving Washington a leg up in the race to power data centers running artificial intelligence, according to a new report. The amount of natural gas projects under development in the U.S. in the first half of this year was already 50% higher than…