A Gallup survey released in May found that "seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area."

The opposition to data centers is fueled by some genuine concerns, but also by a great deal of misinformation and by treating every data center as though it were a massive hyperscale facility operated...

A 2024 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory said that data centers used an estimated 66 billion liters of water in 2023.