Shumita Basu

According to a Bloomberg News analysis, some places near these kinds of centers saw over a 200 percent increase in their costs compared to five years ago.

Evan Halper is a business reporter at The Washington Post who's been tracking the proliferation of data centers for a few years.

He found that there's a huge rush to find areas that can accommodate the construction and a lot of competition among companies.

And often these negotiations are happening without the impacted community knowing.

Really, from all corners.

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has called for a moratorium on data center construction.

Former Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticized the administration on it.

And Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has championed an AI bill of rights that would empower local governments to stop construction.

Halper saw how this debate was playing out in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, near Tulsa.

Many residents in the city voted for Trump three times and supported their Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, who's been a backer of firms building data centers in his state.

The city manager of Sand Springs has argued that the center would become a huge employer in the area and a dominant part of their tax base.

But residents have sued the city to stop the project.

Halper said that this kind of resistance from constituents has proved effective recently.

And finally, a few other stories we're following.

At least six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned Monday over the administration's handling of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent.

Sources told CBS that the resignations stemmed from concern over a request to look into Good's widow and the way the case was being treated as an assault on a federal officer as opposed to an investigation into excessive use of force.

Some of those who resigned oversaw the massive fraud investigation in the state that's come under recent scrutiny.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have refused to testify over their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The Clintons were subpoenaed by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee, but they described the subpoenas as legally invalid and said they had already provided in writing what they knew.

The GOP chair of that committee has said he would move to hold them in contempt of Congress.