This land belongs to you and me — even Willie Nelson is pushing back against data centers
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Community pushback on rural data centers — now with Willie Nelson weighing in — is a warning that AI-era infra faces a social license problem, not just permitting. If you're planning large compute builds, treat local politics, land use, and power optics as first-class constraints alongside megawatts and latency.
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