Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.

Demonstrators protest a data center in Tucson, Arizona, in May 2026. | Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via Getty Images On its surface, the national revolt against data centers seems simple: They are a nuisance, and people do not want them in their proverbial backyards. But I haven’t been able to let go of the idea that there must be something much deeper driving the backlash against them, and fe
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