Americans increasingly unite in opposition to data centers, polls and protests show
The article reports on a surprising political consensus in the polarized United States: widespread opposition to data centers. Citing a poll showing 71% of Americans oppose them (including a majority of Republicans), the piece highlights how grassroots protests are mobilizing against the massive facilities that are described as ugly, water-guzzling, and emblematic of oligarchic exploitation of rural communities. Even Republican officials in key states are breaking with Trump's pro-data-center stance to issue warnings.
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Americans are united in our hatred of data centers. They're big, ugly water guzzlers.
71 percent of Americans oppose them, including a majority of Republicans.
a mass mobilization focused squarely on protecting American hometowns from oligarchic exploitation.
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