A new Gallup poll finds 71% of Americans oppose building AI data centers in their local communities, with nearly half strongly opposed. Environmental concerns — especially water and electricity ...

Americans are so against the construction of artificial intelligence data centers in their local areas that they'd rather see a nuclear power plant built nearby, according to new polling data released ...

State and local governments are under real pressure to move from experimentation to execution for artificial intelligence. Constituents expect faster services, more transparency and digital ...

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This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jesse Brooks, a 35-year-old videographer who lives in Fayetteville, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb. It has been edited for length and clarity. The ...

Railroad tracks run from the bottom of the mountain up to the proposed data center site on what remains of the a coal mine in Wharncliffe. Photo by Henry Culvyhouse / Mountain State Spotlight ...

Some of the world’s largest tech companies are looking to set up huge data centers in small Michigan communities, drawing questions from residents and leaving ill-equipped local governments to grapple ...

Data centers are top of mind for county and municipal leaders in central North Carolina as we see an AI boom across the world. North Carolina is already home to several massive data centers, and many ...

Data centers — proposed beside town centers, on generational farmlands, in view of cemeteries and next to Civil War battlegrounds across Virginia — are testing local governments’ ability to regulate ...

The site where Google has proposed building a 545-acre data center sits just north of Palo next to acres of solar panels and the Duane Arnold Energy Center. Residents wonder why Palo has suddenly ...

Measures seeking to block or rein in data center construction are gaining momentum at the state and local level, as Americans increasingly sour on the massive buildout of AI infrastructure in their ...