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New polling from Gallup shows that Americans really, really don’t like AI data centers being constructed in their neighborhoods. How much do they hate the rise of AI infrastructure? More Americans say they oppose data centers being built near them than oppose nuclear power plants in the same area. A whopping 71% of Americans oppose the construction of data centers in their area, according to Gallup, with 23% somewhat opposed and 48% strongly opposed. Just

Magicpiano via Wikimedia Commons / Futurism Municipalities across the country are fighting tooth and nail to stop data center construction. But not Jay, Maine. The town with a population of just 4,600 people has been so desperate for one of these power-hungry facilities that the state governor Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would’ve banned new data centers of a certain size for the sole reason that it didn’t make an exception for Jay. But why? According to

Pacifico Energy / Futurism Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water. One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an AI data center so enormous that it could easily become the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. According to the New York Times, Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in

Shutterstock / Futurism Over a century ago, in 1904, a necrotrophic fungus known as chestnut blight swept across North America, brought across the Pacific on the back of chestnut trees from Japan and China. With no natural resistance to the fungal scourge, the once-plentiful chestnut trees of North America were ravaged, killing an estimated 4 billion across the United States alone. Today, all that remains of naturally occurring American chestnut trees are

Shutterstock / Futurism A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta will reportedly emit a staggering amount of waste heat. According to an analysis conducted by Utah State University physicist Robert Davies, the Wonder Valley facility will dump “about 23 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs worth of energy every single day” into the surrounding landscape. “The effect will almost certainly be large, if not extreme,” Davies told the CBC. Davies conducted the pre

AIUpdated Today, Nov 9, 2026, 9:13 PM UTCAll the latest updates on AI data centersLinkRSSGiftMassive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and the environment.Data centers were a major bipartisan issue ahead of the 2026 midterms, an