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Community Pushback Against AI Data Center Expansion

States, cities, and landowners across the U.S. are increasingly resisting rapid AI data center growth over concerns about grid strain, land use, and quality of life.

1. States, Cities and Landowners Push Back Against Rapid AI Data Center Expansion

   From Virginia's new rules forcing data centers to pay for their own grid upgrades to Nashville's eminent domain fight and a Kentucky family's refusal to sell farmland, communities across the U.S. are increasingly resisting the AI data center boom over costs to the power grid, land and quality of life.