A couple days ago, John Carmack, a videogame pioneer and former virtual reality executive at Meta Platforms, wrote on X that he had begun seeing anti–data center yard signs popping up in his neighborhood. “I am entertaining the idea of paying for a billboard with something like ‘Data centers are ...

New polling suggests opposition to data centers is less about backyard fights and more about a broader backlash against AI.

I’ve been visiting large AI data center projects in rural and industrial communities in the Midwest, Southeast and West, and I have found that two things can be true at the same…