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On Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026, residents of Monterey Park, California were the to weigh in on a permanent ban on data centers within their city. As of this writing, with over 86% of voters in favor of the ban and less than 14% opposed.Jasmine Sun, San Francisco based tech journalist, wrote about her trip to Washington, D.C. to examine the increasingly tense politics around AI and data centers: I was especially keen to speak with the growing faction of "AI populists," the group ideologically furt...