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Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for AI in their local area, including nearly half who are strongly opposed (opens in new tab) 125 articles covering this post

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The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown

theatlantic.com

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The Rise of Anti-AI AI Slop

theatlantic.com

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Why Everyone Hates AI Data Centers

theatlantic.com·

You Can’t Escape AI Anymore

theatlantic.com

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Saturday Morning Coffee

rob.crabapples.net·

AI anger comes for Claude (Monet)

therundown.ai·

Voters just did something no U.S. city has ever done to stop AI data centers

fastcompany.com·

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes a lot of predictions. Here’s how they’ve fared so far

fastcompany.com··Hacker News

AI’s reality check has finally arrived

fastcompany.com··Hacker News

AI slop farms are churning out anti-AI data center memes on Facebook

fastcompany.com·

Data Center Wars: North Carolina Resists Innovation While Texas Considers Market-Based Rules

The theory taking the rich by storm: China funds data center haters

text.npr.org··Hacker News

AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix

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In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs

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Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards

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Most New US Data Centers Are Slated for Drought-Plagued Areas

motherjones.com·

Mixbook ‘Story Mode’ Lets You Describe How You Want a Photo Book to Look

petapixel.com·

'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says

theregister.com·

Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

theregister.com·

Kevin O'Leary: I've solved your data center problem

tech.yahoo.com·

AI Data Centers, Exponential Growth, and the “J Curve” from Hell

frontporchrepublic.com·

A 5-week course and a guaranteed job: Meta commits $115 million to solve the skilled-trades shortage stalling its AI buildout

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From the Trump administration to Kevin O’Leary, there’s a new narrative that China is to blame for plummeting data center popularity

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‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers are calling out the tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending after slashing 30,000 workers

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2025 was a turning point for your electricity bill and it’s just getting more expensive from here. It’s not just data centers

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Americans’ AI hate wave might just be gathering steam: Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030

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Meta’s $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks—more than seven years of the state’s entire police budget

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Philly Cops Are Reportedly Monitoring Anti-AI Memes, According to Internal Alert

gizmodo.com··r/privacy

Bernie Sanders Continues to Be Only Democrat(ish) Lawmaker Willing to Govern on AI

Americans Would Rather Live by a Nuclear Power Plant Than an AI Data Center

Americans really don't want AI data centers close to their homes

The cloud vs. clouded leopard: America's data center backlash on display at Nashville Zoo

Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems

wired.com··Hacker News

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

wired.com··Hacker News, r/pcmasterrace, r/singularity

China won’t win the AI race but would it be much worse if it did?

lesswrong.com·

How some data center operators are tackling their water use problems

arstechnica.com·

US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI hatred grows

arstechnica.com··Hacker News, Hacker News

Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers

arstechnica.com··Hacker News

A top Google executive says Silicon Valley is overstating the AI jobs apocalypse

businessinsider.com

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What if Kevin O'Leary and Big Tech paid people who lived next to AI data centers?

businessinsider.com

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Shocking AI statistics...

Microsoft's new security harness; Notion makes a PaaS

Lake Mead sits at 30% full as thirsty AI data centers fuel backlash across Southern Nevada

thecooldown.com·

Data center backlash spills into national politics as communities demand moratoriums across US

thecooldown.com·

Applause erupts as Reno council backs 30-day freeze on data center permits after packed eight-hour meeting

thecooldown.com·

Ohio township blocks new data centers for a year as fears grow over water, noise

thecooldown.com·

Can Local Outrage Over Data Centers Tilt the Midterms?

rollingstone.com

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Nobody Wants Data Centers in Their Backyard

Links 17/05/2026: Society of Media Lawyers (Brett Wilson LLP et al) Lobby for More SLAPPs in the UK, “Courage in Journalism Award” Given in Oppressive Country

techrights.org·

Americans' disdain for data centers hits new highs

thedeepview.com

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'Not in my backyard': New Gallup data shows most Americans would rather have a nuclear power plant in their neighborhood than a data center

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Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.

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You have more time than you think. Here are 5 science-backed ways to find it

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Inside the fight over America’s data centers

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman Are on the Same Side

newrepublic.com·

Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

theguardian.com··Hacker News

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters

theguardian.com··Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology

Pity the poor AI data centers facing ‘discrimination’

theguardian.com··Hacker News

Fox News Defines Most Americans as Anti-American

nakedcapitalism.com·

Microsoft holds up rural Washington as data centers ‘gone right,’ but does the model still work?

Data center resistance comes home to Seattle as council considers a one-year freeze

More cities are pressing pause on data centers as local backlash grows

Vampire Planet: China’s (Green) Economic Imperialism

counterpunch.org·

The Gap Between the Press Release and the Power Grid

gradientflow.com·

The Data Center Rebellion just got a lawyer (and a ballot measure)

gradientflow.com·

AI has a communication problem

buzzmachine.com·

How virtual power plants could provide energy for data centers

technologyreview.com··Hacker News

😸 The AI Cold War got a protocol

theneurondaily.com·

Gov. JB Pritzker puts pause on data center tax breaks after legislative effort stalls

chicago.suntimes.com·

Stargate live updates: OpenAI's Altman says 'people are right to be anxious' about AI

Cops Are Spying on People Who Criticize AI Data Centers Online

theintercept.com··Hacker News

Many People Hate Data Centers: Billions in Tax Breaks Are One Reason Why

kiplinger.com·

Crossroads

m3melody.substack.com

California City Residents Deliver a Brutal Message to Big Tech With a Game-Changing Move

themarysue.com·

Republicans Are Investigating Anti-Data-Center Nonprofits Over Their China Ties - News of the United States

Arkansas’ most populous county approves data center moratorium, but with exemption

ualrpublicradio.org·

‘They own it’: A split-screen view of data centers comes to central Arkansas

ualrpublicradio.org·

Exclusive: New Intel Bureau Eyes AI Data Center Critics

kenklippenstein.com··Hacker News

Some Links

cafehayek.com·

‘It’s an Environmental Issue, It’s an Anti-War Issue, They’re All Connected Here’: CounterSpin interview with Melissa Garriga on data centers

How America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A (Very Big) Compilation

thealgorithmicbridge.com··Hacker News, r/artificial

Energy Costs Are Catching Up With Big Tech

finance.yahoo.com·

Republicans' War To Make Gas Expensive Is Making Other Things Expensive Too

Exclusive: Nvidia exec touts ‘significant’ data center benefits

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Seattle Advances Data Center Moratorium, Amid Public Backlash

theurbanist.org·

692: A Thinking Hitch

Illinois Is “Not Quite Ready” to Pass Data Center Regulations Despite Public Pressure

dailyyonder.com·

As Illinois Lawmakers Debate POWER Act, Concerns about Data Centers Spill Into Rural Communities

dailyyonder.com·

Bernie Sanders Has His Eye on AI

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Some Data Centers Are Doing A Lot More Than Just Processing & Storing Data

slashgear.com·

Issue #22 - May 16, 2026

toomuchcoding.com·

Poll: Nearly half of Americans against AI data centers in their area

The AI data center conversation is reaching fever pitch

Start Up No.2667: the data centre opposition, Iran eyes internet cable fees, the handedness puzzle, micropayments redux, and more

theoverspill.blog·

They're noisy. They're unpopular. Should data centers be banned?

The Machine Rages Back

managingeditor.substack.com··Substack

The Machine Rages Back

nextdraft.com·

Data center criticism is based on bad science and scare quotes

torment-nexus.mathewingram.com·

Stag party

themorningnews.org·

Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

aol.com··Hacker News

Big Tech finds a foe in Texas’ robust consumer protection laws and AG Ken Paxton

texastribune.org

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Americans Would Rather Have a Nuclear Plant In Their Backyard Than a Datacenter

news.slashdot.org·

Tesla finally reported un-redacted information about its Robotaxi crashes

sherwood.news·

Alphabet sold $3.6 billion in Japanese yen bonds — a record for a foreign company — likely to help its AI capex binge

sherwood.news·

AI hallucinations appear to be creeping into consulting reports

sherwood.news·

Bloomberg: Relationship between OpenAI and Apple has deteriorated and legal action may be imminent

sherwood.news·

Report: Mythos is used to crack MacOS

sherwood.news·

Survey: 70% of Americans don’t want data centers in their community

sherwood.news·

The OpenAI Jury Has to Decide: Do You Trust Elon Musk or Sam Altman?

MAHA moms are taking on data centers

mediamatters.org·

OpenAI: ‘Likely’ Chinese influence operation tried to use ChatGPT to stir debate on data centers

cyberscoop.com·

Do you live near a data center? Tell us what it’s like

Recent poll shows that 70% of Americans don't want AI data centers being built in their local area

pcguide.com··r/artificial

A Rothbardian Case Against Bad Data Center Policy

Newspaper Finder, University of Nevada Reno, North Carolina Pottery, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, May 15, 2026

researchbuzz.me·

The AI Backlash Arrives

politicalwire.com·

American law enforcement targets "anti-tech violent extremist activity," have monitored data center protests and meetings - report

datacenterdynamics.com·

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データセンターの電力不足、グーグルは市民から集める仕組み導入へ

technologyreview.jp·

Google I/O: Googles radikale KI-Metamorphose

Unbeliebter als Atomkraft: Warum niemand neben einem Rechenzentrum leben will

Prämie für Haushalte, Strom fürs Rechenzentrum: Ob Googles Plan mit dem virtuellen Kraftwerk aufgeht?

Prämie für Bevölkerung: So will Google Strom für seine Rechenzentren sichern

AIデータセンターは「水不足」とどう向き合うのか

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