Why America Is Turning Against AI Data Centers

From Texas to New York, local communities are organizing against massive data centers, making their development a new political battleground.

America is having the wrong conversation about data centers, and if we don’t get the conversation right, we risk talking ourselves out of our own national competitiveness. Across the country, communities are debating new projects. Questions are being raised about grid impact, water usage, land development, tax structur

Erin Brockovich has found a sequel. The legal activist, made famous by Julia Roberts in the 2000 film bearing her name, recently described America’s data center boom as “Hinkley on fricking steroids.” Her new website tracks data centers alongside anonymously submitted complaints about water, electricity, noise, and uti