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Data Center Pushback Grows as Communities in Gilroy and Salem Clash Over AI Infrastructure Projects
Residents in Gilroy, California, and Salem, Oregon, are pushing back against large data center developments, with one town discovering a project had cleared public comment before residents knew to weigh in, and another erupting into protests that included a guillotine outside city hall.
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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.
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