Christopher Kahn
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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And so this backlash really cuts across party lines.
They're in small and large communities.
A Gallup survey earlier this year found that.
about seventy one percent of US adults oppose building a data center in their area and almost half of those about forty forty eight percent said that they strongly oppose them.
So it's really people from from all walks of life.
People against these data centers have packed these kind of city council meetings and called on their local officials to kind of step back and either issue moratoriums or restrict construction and potentially pull out of these deals.
So what we have seen is that about 75 data center projects worth about $130 billion have been blocked or delayed because of this local opposition.
Um, but there are still fifteen hundred data centers under uh construction or currently in development.
So we have this local backlash, but there are other others that are moving through.
So industry advocates for AI data centers, including President Donald Trump, say that these data centers are essential for infrastructure for the AI era and if they support innovation, create high-paying jobs, and generate tax revenue.
But like I'd mentioned, many communities are still rejecting them.
You know, we have over 75 that were rejected, but still there are 1500 under development and you even have
People like Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, for example, who said a data center built by Meta in that state really boosted tax revenue and allowed teachers to receive heavy bonuses.
So you have people in the small communities that are kind of getting this opposition from people in their district, but then are also seeing how maybe some other states and jurisdictions are are benefiting from uh increased tax revenue.
So they're they're balancing really
These these two issues.
Yeah, so there was um a survey from Pew Research that found that fifty-two percent of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about the use of AI in daily life.
And that's a a big jump from even a couple of years ago in 2021, that was about thirty-seven percent.
And for Gen Z and young people that have adopted the technology more than any other age group.
Only about one in ten say that they're more excited than concerned.
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