A Gallup poll showing roughly seven in 10 Americans oppose new AI data centers being built near their homes has turned a simmering local debate into a national political headache for hyperscalers and ...

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 ...

There's a growing backlash against the construction of local data centers, which consume massive amounts of electricity for compute and water for cooling in order to power artificial intelligence.

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Growing questions surrounding two large-scale data centers being developed in the Little Rock metro area prompted the Little Rock Regional Chamber, local utilities, and city ...

Cody Stinnett, 32, has been a registered Republican since he was eligible to vote, but he plans to change it to become an Independent after the May primary elections in Kentucky. A significant reason ...

FAIRMONT, W.Va. (WBOY) — A local business is currently conducting a study to potentially develop a microgrid and data center in Marion County. A release put out on Tuesday by Hog Lick Aggregates (HLA) ...

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 ...

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 ...

A proposed data center development in Vance County is drawing growing opposition from residents. The project, planned along U.S. 158 near Henderson, would be developed by Natelli Investments LLC, a ...

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 ...