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Inside the fight over America’s data centers

A data center under construction in Vineland, New Jersey. | Kevin Huang Make no mistake: Americans hate data centers. A recent poll from Gallup shows 70 percent of Americans oppose a data center in their local area, including 48 percent who are strongly opposed. That 70 percent number is tied to several concerns, environmental questions and quality of life chief among them, and it’s up 18 percent (!) in just two months, when Gallup asked the same question in March. Nonetheless, data centers keep going up at a rate that is nothing short of astonishing. According to one estimate, mor...