Gallup finds 71% of Americans oppose a nearby data center, and West Virginia offers to spend the revenue killing its income tax
Every source from the earlier chapters of this story, grouped by worldview.
Chapter 2 · Aug 24 – Aug 26 · 3 days
Data centers remaking the midterms
Dem Soc5 articles
Liberal4 articles
Center2 articles
Center-Right8 articles
- The Data Center Backlash Is Just a New Moral Panic
- Data Driven (8/25/26)
- The Atheist Congressman Taking On MAGA's Nationalist Crusaders
- Founders Town Hall: Entering the Home Stretch
- The Self-Destructive Opposition to Data Centers
- Greg Abbott says data center developers ‘dug their own grave’
- Sam Altman says AI industry has ‘not done a very good job’ explaining the technology’s benefits to the public
- Trump says the US leads the AI race with China ‘by a lot’
MAGA2 articles
Chapter 1 · Aug 21 – Aug 23 · 3 days
Data centers backlash
Dem Soc3 articles
Liberal4 articles
- MAHA activists urge Trump against promoting coal to power energy-hungry AI data centers
- Trump ignores GOP warnings, again leans into support for data centers
- Vance will campaign at the Ohio steel plant where his grandfather once worked
- Palm Springs considers data center moratorium, joining other cities
Center3 articles
Center-Right3 articles
Libertarian2 articles
MAGA4 articles
Tech7 articles
- Data center madness
- Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy
- Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
- Leaked Memo Shows Republicans Are Terrified of the Backlash Against AI Data Centers
- Giving the people what they want (not data centers)
- Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
- OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?