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It’s become a part of everyday life to wake up to a news story about AI data centers being built somewhere in the U.S. It’s also become equally common to be treated to threads full of negative feedback from randoms and the people living in those states once they learn about them.The speedy development of data centers has been tied to plenty of unfortunate outcomes thus far—their expansion across the DMV (Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia) and Georgia is reportedly driving people from their homes as the spaces they occupy are being considered as fertile ground for new data centers. The growing opposition to them is due in large part to their massive consumption of water and electricity they consume, which then raises the utility bills for nearby residents.Add on the constant noise pollution from continuous cooling systems, air emissions from backup generators and the conversion of natural green spaces (such as farms) into massive industrial warehouses and you have a long list of valid complaints against continued data center development.While states such as Ohio, Illinois and Arizona stand out as growing hubs for the constant advancement of new data centers, there’s also a bunch of other states that are going in the opposite direction. Here are the ones that are considering banning them altogether.Texas is joining the list of other states that are considering blocking new AI data centers
