Compared to anxiety about rising prices, data centers are hardly top of mind for voters heading into the midterm elections — but they have become one of the most potent weapons in politics, according ...

Backlash against the nationwide data center buildout is threatening to shape the 2026 midterm elections. But the lead strategists behind one of the biggest pro-AI groups believe the political and ...

Data centers are not new. While sometimes vitriolic discussions about the gargantuan structures have accompanied increasingly unavoidable AI conversations, data centers themselves have been around ...

Global data center spending is set to reach $31.6 trillion through 2050 to meet the world’s growing appetite for AI, an investment boom with no precedent in history, according to ...

President Trump said Monday that communities that do not want AI data centers will suffer economically. “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they ...

In central Washington, a farming town of roughly 8,100 people has become an unlikely showcase for America’s data-center boom. Quincy, long known for potato fields, apple orchards and food-processing ...

The data center backlash is still, like a tidal wave, growing. And to really understand what’s happening, you have to start not with the constituent parts of the resistance but with the sheer scale of ...

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President Trump is the master of the 70-30 issue, exploiting political divides where majority opinion aligns with his populist views. But there are some exceptions. One is data centers. Mr. Trump ...

Have you seen all the data centers popping up across Georgia and wondered whether all that digital storage space is being used? Well, they’re pretty much all full. And most of the ones under ...

The data center, one of the world’s largest, could cost as much as $500 billion and will be leased by OpenAI. By Kalley Huang Reporting from San Francisco Nvidia said on Monday that it had agreed to ...

President Trump on Thursday expanded his pledge that aims to have data centers “pay their own way” for the electricity they use, but he took the opportunity to defend data centers at the same time.