The Results Are In: Voters Hate Data Centers
THE SO WHAT
Data centers just became a ballot-box issue—your AI and cloud roadmap now depends on local land use politics as much as on GPU supply. If you’re planning capacity, add community opposition and zoning timelines to your risk model, not just power and fiber availability.
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